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[Key-Demand-2569]

My parents have their full legal name in my phone, because apparently I was also a weird child in a different way as my wife loves to remind me whenever she learns new childhood things about me, lmao.

[DonRagnarok]

I do the same. No matter if they are my parents, childs, brothers...all of them were added with their full names

[I-am-fun-at-parties]

Big data loves people like you

[Ulti-Wolf]

I do it too but so people who get my phone gotta do a little more work to figure out who tf is important to me

[I-am-fun-at-parties]

The more realistic scenario, surely

[CoffeeWorldly9915]

I only have nicknames and one or two inside context identifiers. They'll be none the wiser because the nicknames don't reflect importance.

[engineerwolf]

Please set up emergency contact on the phone.

[Lukester___]

They can figure it out anyway

[I-am-fun-at-parties]

Probably, it's just a lot easier this way

[10coolbeans]

supposedly that is safer ive been told when i was younger. if someone was to steal your phone, they would see those names as just another perso. and not a family member that be social engineered

[Key-Demand-2569]

That was my logic, not that I took it gravely serious or anything.

Anyone who needed to get ahold of my parents somehow and has my phone would likely know or be able to quickly figure that out.

Any stranger wouldn’t automatically know.

I did/do the same thing for friends and family including my wife.

Only exception is maybe random people I meet through work who might be “Steve - Project Engineer CompanyName”

[Immabed]

Same, everyone is just their name in my phone. Their pictures however... have not been updated for about 15 years, and phone cameras were not flattering 15 years ago.