@tezoatlipoca @Mrfunkedude it was.
We gave them half the data we do now but could literally ask ICQ, “Give a list of people with this city, gender, and age in their profile” and it was like “Okay, here you go…”
Now messaging apps know what color socks I’m wearing, whether I am circumcised, and have a gambling pool open on what I’ll eat for lunch but finding people with any sort of demographic precision is half impossible.
Maybe that’s good though ( the search fuzz not the data hoarding.)