I periodically clean things up. Getting older means removing dead people at an accelerating pace :/

The contacts I last removed were some classmates and school contacts of my daughter, who just finished university…

I clean it up every few years. People who don’t chat or answer eventually get deleted. The past is the past.

I moved. No longer needed the details of local businesses.

Got a new sim last week. Had some numbers stored on the old sim. I saved a few, but didn’t bother relocating most of them. That’s the same as deleting them, right?

My dad died in 2014. I still have his number saved. No, I don’t delete contacts very often.

Thanks for the reminder. I just wiped 110 contacts.

Three had passed away. Many were colleagues from over 20 years ago. A lot were army buddies from over 25 years ago. Some ex-partners of friends. Too many fast-food places from cities I haven’t lived in in forever.

Keep in nind that Meta and Google know your phone number, address, birthday, etc because your friends keep you in their contact list.

I do it periodically. My phone contacts are restricted to friends I speak to frequently, family, certain work contacts and a limit of 3 people I don’t really talk to anymore but am leaving the door open for.

I removed my landlord right after I moved out of that lunatic’s house.

Because they were names I’d been scrolling by for years and will never, ever intentionally call them. Nothing bad, just things like old work contacts, or even people from college and high school that were added decades ago and never left my phonebook.

I never wanted to delete them just in case one day I needed to get in touch with them, but it ended up turning into a digital junk pile that I need to clean out now and then.

I can always add them back in if we ever cross paths in the future.

I keep them because it’s a resource. I can ignore a call if I need to.

Couple weeks back. I moved countries a few years ago and those people I haven’t spoke to in a decade before that so no point on keeping them.

I haven’t deleted any, but I’ve kept a few so that I can make sure they are blocked.

toxic old boss from before i got my professional job.