Why I no longer click the "Add contact" button in Telegram

Telegram has a strange function that borders on my sense of beauty and safety. In my opinion, this is not even a hole, but a straight through hole.

So, I will try to briefly and most informatively express my thoughts. This note is a small guide on how to get the phone number to which your partner’s account is linked.

Mistress note:
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1. In the chat (not group), on the mobiles there is a button “Share my contact” after clicking on which, a compact message containing the phone number that is associated with your Telegram account and a button with the signature “ADD CONTACT” is sent to your interlocutor;
   
   If it’s in pictures, it comes out somehow (sorry for my crooked hands, but I tried to cope with peint as best I could to improve the screenshots):
   
   
   
   
   Fig. 1 - Share my contact button in person
   
   
   
   
   Fig. 2 - What can be observed on that side of the wire
   
   
2. The interlocutor presses a button in a message with your contact signed by the captain “ADD CONTACT” and he, when opening your profile, will see your phone number. And, it would seem, the effect of the action of this wonderful button was supposed to end there ...
   
   
3. But this is a turn! In the meantime, you are convinced that the profile of your interlocutor also displays a phone number, access to which no one has given you!

Anticipating that now they will write to me in the comments that I am a fool, and the description is not a bug, but a cool and fashionable and convenient feature: a phone number is information that is not straightforward to disclose, even if you need someone’s phone number, not the fact that you want to share your contact, much less the number to which the account is linked.

Although it is possible that my problems are individual and connected primarily with the fact that my paranoia considers that the phone number to which the account is linked is a very personal thing and there is no need for anyone to know it. And then you never know, all of a sudden, my account will go into bad, unwashed hands, and instead of the history of correspondence and my favorite Gikovsky channel, some kulkhatsker will leave a broken trough.

PS: All beaver beavers! And be careful when someone shares their contact with you. And yes, this post is not intended to form someone’s negative opinion about Telegram - it’s cool and I really like it, but the behavior of some functionality is not very obvious.