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  That's a whole ass movie you're living in
context: I just don't really open the "Contacts" portion of my phone enough to bother. >
  
  Makes sense. >
  
  That's most people. Your opinion only applies to a very small subset of 30 year olds in 2006 >
  
  Pardon? >
  
  People's opinions don't really matter for the other People. >
  
  I like old contacts; they carry warm memories. Even if we just had to work together a bit i hope you're doing fine in the future. It's like a mosaic of the different people and memories in your life. And if i have real, actually important information for you or you have real, actually important information for me (like say we broke up and you moved out but the government still sent me some of your mail) then it's kind of useful. >
  
  Sometimes they can carrry some bad memories too. That's just how it is. >
  
  Many people just use it to screen calls in that case then. >
  
  I don't delete emails what makes you think I'm going to delete contacts lol >
  
  Why would you think I would know that? Lol. 
  Not gonna lie, I’m the same way with emails. That’s just exhausting. >
  
  Ignoring old contacts for people that I never think about requires significantly less effort (zero) than deleting old contacts of people that I never think about. >
  
  If you've truly moved on then seeing their name in your contact list shouldn't bother you. >
  
  Declutters as well. 
  Maybe that is the last step in moving on for me. >
  
  I keep the ex's numbers so I don't accidentally pick up when they inevitably call. >
  
  Block then delete. I’ve done that with a couple of other contacts. >
  
  Oh I didn't know you could do that! >
  
  Neither did I until someone else told me you could do that. I thought you have to leave them in your contacts. Live and learn. >
  
  It still saves their number in your phone doing that, just in a different place on the blocked numbers list >
  
  I get that. But if you feel blocking in necessary, then you don’t care. At least that is how I feel. >
  
  What I would like is the ability to move contacts to a 'only callerID' section. Remove contacts from my normal contact list, but have them available for callerID if the contact ends up calling me..
  If my old boss calls me, I'd like to know it's him before answering. But, I don't want to be able to accidentally call, sms him, or send him money lol. >
  
  That’s actually a really good idea. >
  
  Youre right. But Id rather scroll reddit for hours instead of managing my contacts list >
  
  I’ve lost many an hour to this site. >
  
  Because of one of these ex-friend people calls..... I want to see they are calling so I know not to pick up the call. >
  
  Why not block them, then delete? >
  
  Cause then you dont know they tried to call >
  
  Why would you care if you’re not going to pick up? I’m confused. >
  
  Would be interesting to know who’s thinking of you right? >
  
  I guess. None of this has ever happened to me, so 🤷‍♂️ >
  
  I accidentally deleted 20 years of phone contacts when my phone bricked last year. It was surprisingly liberating. >
  
  I bet that would be. 
  How did you go about recovering the ones you need? >
  
  Thankfully work still provides a master phone contact sheet and my wife had the numbers of most of my friends and family I have needed/wanted to talk to. I still get calls/texts from random numbers and get to say "new phone who dis" but honestly 90% of the numbers I've had weren't people I talk to anyway. So, by accident I agree with your opinion. >
  
  They don't take much space, and you never know >
  
  I’ve never encountered a situation where I was like “crap, I need that number.” So 🤷‍♂️ I mean, I guess it could happen. >
  
  Yeah that's true, even more so today with social media >
  
  This is the only social media I have. I guess the way I look at it is, is we don’t converse for at least a year, are we really high on the call list if something goes down? >
  
  I’m 24 and still have contacts saved in my phone all the way back to middle school. To be totally honest I just don’t care enough to go through and delete them. There’s probably around 10 contacts total that currently serve me and I have a shit ton saved in my phone, isn’t and has never been a priority. I don’t think it’s good or bad or has any deeper meaning though >
  
  Fair enough. >
  
  I regularly purge my contacts. Once in a blue moon all get a text from a random person that was purged but its usually years later. >
  
  Literally never had that happen. If it did, I would explain why I didn’t know who it was. >
  
  I just don’t even save numbers anymore, I have like 8 contacts 😂 >
  
  Old school. >
  
  That's how I'd want more people to be. Just be like that. >
  
  I keep them saved so i know not to answer tbh >
  
  Block them, then delete. I just did that with a couple of contacts. >
  
  I don’t like to block anyone unless they’re annoying me incessantly. >
  
  Well that hasn’t been an issue in a few decades. But I suppose if I was dating now, I might not be so quick to delete. When I was last dating you had to write down numbers or memorize them. Lol. 
  But who says I was blocking everyone? Deleting a contact is not the same as block. >
  
  One block. One. She tried to drag me into her custody battle with her ex. Problem was? I was a witness she shouldn’t have tried to use or drag me into this. I knew things that once I knew the score, I felt a moral obligation to help him out. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have had a clue about how the divorce was. This came at the advice of a lawyer friend. 
  Two Block. Two. Someone who is no longer allowed to be in my life. This was after years of trying to work with them. 
  Not a lot of people. >
  
  I am keeping contacts of my passed away family members. I need them with me, cannot say why but it is comfortable. >
  
  I have several from friends that passed away, texts too, I can’t delete them, it doesn’t feel right. >
  
  I keep numbers just incase I ever need to get ahold of the person for some reason. Not because of some fantasy my ex is gonna come back to me lol. This has proven helpful >
  
  I’ve never been in that situation so it never occurred to me. Not claiming to have covered every scenario. Just the common reasons I have found. >
  
  Lol bro why do you feel so strongly about this you post it in two groups >
  
  I posted the first one, which made me wonder if this was an unpopular opinion or not. People often post the same thing in multiple subs here. >
  
  I just thought it was funny lol >
  
  Fair enough. >
  
  I just keep my phone contacts cuz I’m too lazy to delete them. They never contact me except the occasional text for a hookup but I’ve been taken for a while now just ignore them. I also don’t wanna be that person who answers with “who is this” >
  
  See I have zero issues with being “who is this?” if we have had no contact for years. >
  
  "I have emotional problems triggered by digital clutter" =/= "everyone else should clear out their old contacts" >
  
  Exactly.  The author of this post seems like a frustrated person who wants to use his own sadness to screw up the rule. >
  
  
  to screw up the rule.
  
  Which rule exactly? >
  
  I would like to know this as well. Interesting assumptions made about me. >
  
  Whenever Facebook tells me it's someone's birthday and I don't remember the person, I unfriend them immediately. >
  
  I purged my friends list more than a few times. People change, or get into MLMs and I’m not into that. >
  
  I legit forget about contacts I've labeled beyond the people I talk to regularly. I recently found someone named "Nick OKC" (as in Okcupid) in my contacts. I don't even remember a Nick. We certainly never had a date. But here he is, in my contacts. I've been in a committed relationship for six years and just got married. It really reminded me that I should be cleaning out my contacts. >
  
  Phhttt... I've literally had my phone list as a continued digital file of some sort since 1981, and my vic20. I imported the text file into my first cell in 2004. I still have some of the numbers from 1981, tho I think only 1 of them is valid.  
  I'm also friends with a lot of my ex's. As in I see them several times a year, go camping with them, have changed the diapers for their now adult kids...   
  I'm also with a woman who I dated in 1989, who I considered "the girl I'd dump everyone else for". We've been together since 2013. Her old number, which she still has as a house phone, remained in my contacts...  
  I deleted one person from my contacts in 2010. We broke up. She told me not to contact her. So I didn't. She calls me for help with her internet. Then calls me to ask why I didn't wish her a happy thanksgiving... She said not to call her... she bitches at me on xmas that I didnt call her... then new years... "Look, we're not dating. I dont have to put up with your shit." She was already seeing someone new... couldn't she have allowed me to be happy for the two of them? Newp. I said some hurtful things to make her go the fuck away, and deleted her from my contacts.   
  Keeping those numbers tho? They did result in a lot of recycling of relationships, and it was fun.