Google De-Automates Addition of Gmail Contacts

Google has smart solutions for every thing that comes on the way, This is one out of that


"We've heard from some of you that Gmail's auto-added contacts can lead to too much address book clutter,"

"One of the advantages of automatically creating contacts is that all of the addresses you e-mail subsequently show up in auto-complete. We wanted to preserve this benefit while giving you the ability to have a clean, uncluttered contact list, and we've come up with a solution that's rolling out this week.

It separates your contacts into two groups: 'My Contacts' and 'Suggested Contacts.'"Gmail still auto-gathers e-mail addresses, but now they're just "Suggested Contacts." You, the user, now must now take a more active role in defining your social circle.


Instead of removing/etc the functionality, how smartly they came up with a smart solution.