I probably use Gmail more than any other site out there. So you’d think I’d be addicted to my Gmail contact list right?

Wrong. I never use it. Why? Because of Google’s idiotic approach to contacts.

Google makes it so that basically anyone who emails you and you respond to is added to your contact list. That might be fine for someone who gets a few emails a day and only talks to friends and family, but for me, who gets several hundred emails a day now, most of which are from people I don’t know, this is a huge problem.

But it could be that Google is about to change that. As Google Operating System notes, Google will now have a “suggested contacts” area on your contacts page. This page apparently explains itself as:

“My Contacts is a place to import, store and view all of the contact information that’s important to you. You can also create your own groups of contacts to easily email many people at once. We add people you’ve emailed to Suggested Contacts. You can move contacts from Suggested Contacts into My Contacts at any time.”

Finally!

The worst part about the old Google contact list was that it was influential for things like “friends” on Google Reader and other Google services. This needed to change, and so I’m glad that it is. Now I can actually use it.