Wondering what your take on this is.
The contact list is there to be used as such. For sentimentality, I have pictures and letters and stuff. Maybe their birthday on my calendar.
And the reality is that if it’s a super important person, I won’t forget them. Or I’ll be senile, but by then it’s a different story.
I don’t keep my contacts list clean. Deceased people are to be found in my contact list; not as any sort of memorials, but because it didn’t even occur to me to remove them. A couple bits of data storage is free. Going in and deleting them takes effort.
I add the ⚱️emoji to their name.
Makes them easy to search for and stop to have a moment of reflection on their effect on my life.
I got confused and then realised it was a cremation urn. Funny how some cultures are different, as in mine Cremation is uncommon and burial is common
That’s a nice idea
Funny how some cultures are different, as in mine this is a horrifyingly normalyzing idea
does it get more normal than death?
I leave them in if it’s someone i care about. I lost a school kid last year. Took his files out of my drawer today.
Both of my parents are dead. It looks like I deleted one and left one.
I have another address book I move them to that is a archive for past contacts. Past work contacts etc… never had to go back to it, but good to know I can. Also don’t have random people I have not contacted in 10 years still on my day to day address book.
Huh… I- never considered this question.
My contacts list has been growing for 21 years. Very few people have caused me so much distress that I’d found removing them from my contacts to be worthwhile. I only found out about some of my friends deaths fairly recently.
On reflection, as I currently look through my contacts list I think removing the friends that have since passed would cause me more distress than leaving them in there. I won’t be calling them.
My Xbox friend list has a slowly growing number of gamer tags that will never be online again
Climate change will be reversed and billionaires will be abolished before I delete my grandparents contacts from my phone. Every time I pass my grandpa’s, I hear Hello young man, it’s your grandfather. like he said every time we talked on the phone regardless of who called who.
I can understand those who don’t feel the same way.
Keep it if you want, don’t keep it if you don’t.
But never forget the people.
Ahhh I’m one of the dead xBox and PSN friends for many lovely people.
I have everything from the Atari 2699 to the PS3/Wii/360… the ps4 and xBone had terrible performance and loading times so I never got them. Now I just have a bunch of high end computers and no desire to get consoles again. But I did have some sweet friends who might still see my name as “last logged in 12 years ago” or something like that.
Well, I know who is gone permanently and who just moved to pc. Neither will go though
I just keep them, occasionally call the long dead numbers too which is kinda sad but whatever
I leave them. I’ve even dialed the super close ones a couple of times over the years on purpose just to (anxiously) see if their numbers have been taken 😅
Keep it. I still have my uncle on Steam over 8 years later.
I delete it. For those people, I have more profound ways to contact them.
Being?
Ouija board.
Don’t I wish.
We need to find you a black friend named Carl.
Nightly prayer.
I let it stay untill I am ready to delete it.
When my grand parents died I kept the entry in my phonebook untill one day some time later when cleaning up the contacts I didn’t see a reason why I should keep it.
I mean, why delete the contact? You could also demolish the headstone.
It costs you nothing to keep it in your phone as a memory.
If the number gets reassigned after the grace period expires, the new owner might add a profile picture that then populates across linked services. I’d rather avoid that.
But it also costs nothing to demolish the headstone.
Just saying.
