Buddies
I have about 240 screen names in my AIM buddy list. Ya know how many of those people I actually talk to on a regular basis? Probably about a dozen, and that's counting people I talk to for work. I've got a "Friends" group with 30 people in it, all of whom were friends over three years ago and probably haven't been heard from since. There's even a "Never Talk To" group (seven people).
Obviously, I don't need all these people hanging about, but I can't bring myself to delete them. What if I need to get in touch with them? What if I never manage to find their contact info ever again? What if I don't recognize a third of the screen names in the list (whoops)?
I was going to clean it out and copy any deleted names into some kind of address book, just in case, but that never happened. Remind me to do that one of these days.
And if you're in the Never Talk To group...well, maybe YOU should get in touch with ME! How bout them apples!
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I had that same issue with an
I had that same issue with an enormous buddy list of 200+ names, and I think I came up with a solution that worked out pretty well for me. I took everyone's name who I knew I would commonly talk to and put them in one group. Then, after I graduated college, I took everyone else and put them in a second group. Anyone who initiated a conversation with me between the time I graduated and the time I moved out to DC was moved to the keep list, everyone else was erased when I moved out here, if they talk to me, I re-add them, but it trimmed my list from 250 or so to 30.
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