1. burtd06's Avatar
    My assumption was that as BBM was based on email addresses, people with existing BB-IDs would have their contacts ported over to their BBM that they downloaded on iOS or Android. I was just speaking with a friend and it seems not to be the case.

    I can't imagine someone rebuilding a BBM list from scratch, they would just stick with whatsapp... which has hundreds of contacts.

    I hope BB has a solution to this issue as it could prevent them from reaching critical mass. For people coming back, I think it would only make sense to restore old BBM contacts associated with BB-ID Email address.

    Also, does anyone have a clue how suggested invites is supposed to work?
    10-21-13 09:23 PM
  2. RHDJEEZY's Avatar
    Yeah.. they messed up big time.
    All my friends lost all their contacts.. however they signed up to get bbm on their iphone's with the same exact email that was used for their BlackBerry ID.. before leaving BlackBerry

    Yet bbm contact list is empty

    Suggest invites works like this:

    If your phone contact list is organized correctly like mine is.
    It's 2013.. everybody has an email address. So all my contacts have phones numbers, and email addresses saved extremely organized.

    Suggested invites will scan your phonebook's email addresses and just see if those email addresses match a BBM / BlackBerry ID account.

    So unless your contact list is organized like mine..
    Good luck using that feature..

    I have been checking that feature for the past 4 hours and got me at least 15 new bbm contacts.
    I check that feature once a day and NEVER found anything.

    But the past four hours have been great..

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    10-21-13 09:34 PM
  3. cruciaL's Avatar
    How does one use suggested invite?
    10-21-13 10:44 PM
  4. Rickster1's Avatar
    Yes interested in how to access suggested invites as well!!!

    Posted via CB10
    10-21-13 11:04 PM
  5. AnimalPak200's Avatar
    Within BBM, just hit on 'Invites', then it'll probably be empty... but at the top you'll see three tabs: "Received", "Sent", "Suggested". Hit Suggested.


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