Gmail Contact Manager Has Changed!
Google has updated it’s Gmail contact manager. Gmail’s contact manager had a problem of address book clutter because Gmail’s contact manager used to add every outgoing reciepient to the address book, this was creating a problem of address book getting cluttered. One of the advantages of automatically creating contacts is that all of the addresses you email subsequently show up in auto-complete. Google has preserved this benefit while giving you the ability to have a clean, uncluttered contact list, and They have come up with a solution that’s rolling out this week. It separates your contacts into two groups: “My Contacts” and “Suggested Contacts.”
My Contacts contains the contacts you explicitly put in your address book (via manual entry, import or sync) as well as any address you’ve emailed a lot (Gogole is using five or more times as the threshold for now).
Suggested Contacts is where Gmail puts its auto-created contacts. By default, Suggested Contacts you email frequently are automatically added to My Contacts, but for those of you who prefer tighter control of your address books, you can choose to disable usage-based addition of contacts to My Contacts (see the checkbox in the screenshot above). Once you do this, no matter how many times you email an auto-added email address it won’t move to My Contacts.
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