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  Yeah that's true, even more so today with social media
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.