Wondering what your take on this is.
I personally delete. Someone else will take that number anyways… I feel like there are so many other things to keep that remind us of whom we have lost
I keep loved ones. Seems like they are not gone, to a degree.
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 let it stay.
It is weird when someone that uses the number joins signal though… I want to reach out to them because I miss my brother but its a good reminder that life marches on with or without you. And we should let the ones who have left, go.
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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 😅
I just keep them, occasionally call the long dead numbers too which is kinda sad but whatever
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.
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.
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
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?
Nightly prayer.
Ouija board.
Don’t I wish.
We need to find you a black friend named Carl.
When the idea that we live on in the memories of the people who liked us, means sth to you, I would keep them. Every time you stumble over their entry this memory gets reactivated. I think that is a nice thing.
My grandmother died 40 years ago and she told me, when I was very little, to fold the seems of the coffee filter before you put it in. Everytime I make coffee I think about her because of that.
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.
Lost a very close friend 3 weeks ago way before his time and used to see him online on steam every time I was on. It hurts seeing his name and knowing he’ll never be back. In terms of phone contacts they kind of get filtered out naturally when I move devices .
I deleted it after I go to the wake. Otherwise, I just delete it.
