Originally Posted by ajGoes

Forums are a great place to consider how other people perceive things. It had never occurred to me to have a gripe about my phone's voluminous contacts list. I look at the list so rarely that I couldn't even remember how to find it.

(It's in the "People" app on my phone. When I got the phone, People was in the dock at the bottom of my launcher. After a while, I realized I never used it, so I removed it from there in favor of something else.)

I never use People because I look up my contacts either by talking to the phone or with Gesture Search.

Getting back to the OP's gripe, I see that People can organize contacts by groups and by favorites. A quick look at mine reveals that I've never used Groups: I just looked up my son and found I never added him to my Family group.

People lets me specify which contacts I want it to display. The "Contacts to display" setting lists all possible contact sources plus a Customize option where I could make my own fine-tuned list. This would all seem like a waste of time to me; as I said, I just scribble my contact's name in the Gesture Search window and go from there. I like letting the phone do the work.