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Why is backing up chats so important for people? I see it as an advantage that chat history evaporates eventually. Important information should be stored somewhere where it's actually easy to find.
You have no S.O. or friends you'd want to look back on chats with from 2-5 years ago to reminisce about how you met or something you did?
What do you even use messengers for then?
(I am genuinely curious this is not meant to sound so patronising)
No looking back.
On my side, messengers are used for daily communication, info, memes and such.
Memories are made in person or via video calls having coffee, drinking. My family and friends are scattered all over so we often drink via Signal, sync the music we listen to on both sides... All night long. ๐ช ๐
Interested about video calls - do you record them as well for looking back?
No, I don't do video calls personally other than at work.
But the vast majority of communication when not IRL to me is text so that makes sense to preserve, even info, daily communication and memes, just the kind of day to day stuff you wouldn't "make memories" of but might want to look back on someday anyway.
I pretty regularly end up looking back on that stuff one way or another too, either just literally reminiscing or to check something or whatever.
It's come in extremely useful, fun and has no real downsides. I can't even imagine not doing it. Like going somewhere and not even taking a picture. What if you forget it ever happened?
How do you even build a narrative of your life? What do you do about things you forget or forget the details of like when it happened etc.?
Many times I thought something happened in e.g. January only to be proven wrong by looking up messages from that time and be proven wrong, naturally as human memory is pretty shite for the most part.