A few days ago, while I was scrolling through my contacts list, I realized I had many contacts from companies or people I had met that I no longer was in contact with, or that I didn’t remember who they were. I realized that I needed to clean my contact list.
I deleted the following items:
- Companies in cities where I no longer lived: restaurants, taxi companies, service companies (electricity, internet, laundromat, dry cleaning, car, etc.)
- Contacts I couldn’t remember who they were: I meet a lot of people through work, and sometimes I forget to write notes on how/why I met them, or they were contacts I hadn’t written a full name.
- People I was no longer in contact with: some people I had met in school, or people I had lost contact with because I moved to another city.
After cleaning my list, I ended up with around 250 contacts, they are of family, close friends, current coworkers, and service companies of the city where I live in.
During this activity I realized:
- LinkedIn is a better platform to keep in touch with previous coworkers. Especially because many of the emails/phone numbers I had were from a company, and people change jobs all the time and those contacts might not be current.
- Yelp (or some other platform) is better to keep track of service companies, since again, companies change phone numbers all the time. In Yelp, I create lists for each city I visit or where I have lived, and bookmark companies there.
- Facebook is great to keep in touch with former classmates and close friends and family that live in another city.
Arabela Navarro 