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The average Android user has approximately 5000 contacts synced to their device. This seems staggeringly large.

• marssaxman 11y ago
  Yes, that number startled me as well - it is so far beyond Dunbar's number that it must represent the result of some automatic collection process. Perhaps Gmail harvests all the email addresses passing through your inbox and stuffs them into the contact list? I imagine that most people using Android phones are less persnickety than I am about allowing Google to manage their lives, so I can imagine that Google might be routinely shuffling large numbers of "contacts" around, which the user of the device neither knows or cares about.
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  • mahyarm 11y ago
    I think it's the gmail "you've emailed them so now they are a contact" and other social services syncing their address books into your address book.