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I analysed 20 years of my chats

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Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats

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Be angry then, IM communication is not a contract with terms unilaterly decided by one party. Or put a confidential signature with every message, see how well that works for you

If I need a contract for you to treat me decently and respect my choices, I really dont think you can count as a "friend" at all.

naively assuming everyone will do whatever you want is closer to delusions of grandeur than ethics.

Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats

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Why do people keep chats? I have none, oldest is 6 months which is when I set my chat app to delete them. I'm the same with emails. Genuinely don't understand why you'd want to keep this stuff. I'd never go back and reread them.

You will wish you had them when you need them. There might be reasons in the future that you don't realize now. Plus the fact that storage is cheap. So the most logical thing to do is to keep them unless you have a good reason to delete.

Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats

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I'm not sure if it needs to be said, but one thing that is possible only if you keep your old chats is the analysis TFA made.

That's a weird reason. Thought process: I'm going to keep all my chats and in 20 years time run an analysis on them and write a blog post about it...

Well yes, if you see the other comments in this thread it does seem that many have had the idea to save their chats because they knew in the future a more powerful analysis tool would emerge for them. It does not seem to be an uncommon belief especially in the technically minded sphere.

Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats

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I don't understand how some people write hundreds of text/chat messages per day. I am communicating by talking to people almost 100% of non-work, most of the discussions are face to face, I write or receive a handful of texts or chats per week, maybe a dozen per month. I find text messages impersonal and it also takes longer to communicate clearly what we need. There is so much lost. Even chats and emails for work ar…

They're younger than you.

Re: I analysed 20 years of my chats

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Huh, the export function in Telegram Desktop ( https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/ ) is still there. Click on the three dots while in a chat and then Export.

ah right, I think that might be what is "Telegram Lite" on the App Store These are the two options I see to download https://i.ritzastatic.com/static/1e133ef5057a949b7ddd92e5668... And the 'main' one that I usually use doesn't have export settings that I can find https://i.ritzastatic.com/static/18db23448a373338766bf419fa0...

Ah yeah Telegram Lite is also an official program, but has fewer features.
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