How do you group your IM contacts?

[Jasonbot]

I use adium and am running out of space grouping my contacts, I need some original ideas. The problem is that my current system is pretty biased.

Currently I use a ranking system that is as follows:
N00bs
Peons
1337 H4x0rz


the latter is t3h group to be in.

So how about you?

 

[mkrishnan]

lol

I suppress the display of groups, keep all contacts from all services together, organize by status, and then alphabetize.

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

I used to not have any groups at all, just like mkrishnan, but I currently have my contacts in 5 groups. I help with the youth ministry program at my church, so I have a group of current kids, another for those who have graduated, another for the adults that help out, and then a friends group and an "others" group. Works well for me.

 

[nateDEEZY]

lol

I suppress the display of groups, keep all contacts from all services together, organize by status, and then alphabetize.

+1 for that, No groups, organized by status and offline ones hidden.

 

[jones14]

I have 2

Friends
Individuals (Adium default)

Not too exciting

 

[Luis]

Just hide offline contacts and then alphabetically (although I do divide Family and friends, but nothing to big) sort the contacts. Pretty common.

 

[jng]

I guess I'm pretty boring.

- (work group)
- college friends
- hometown/high school friends
- german friends
- family
- other

 

[After G]

Just two groups ... boys and girls

 

[rockthecasbah]

"Lovely Ladies"
"Guys"
"Annoying/Other"

 

[MacNut]

I just bunch them all together.

 

[yoyo5280]

Friends
Family
Bots
People I hate

 

[kitki83]

Ok I need help. Is there a way to purge names that have not been online for long time like 7-8 years.
Also how to you even rename groups in Adium and how can you even organize them!!!!??? I must know theres some pruning to be done for me.

 

[MacNut]

Friends
Family
Bots
People I hate

Why do you list the bots?

 

[Eclipse278]

Allies
Axis

 

[yoyo5280]

Why do you list the bots?

It is just the category I put my twitter thingy in, and I listed it for the sake of listing it.

 

[GoCubsGo]

Just like this:

Yummy Boys I want to sleep with
Yucky Boys I don't want to sleep with
Girls

 

[Mammoth]

Online and Offline.

 

[OutThere]

I've got one big group with everyone called "Online Buddies", then I have the automatically generated "Recent Buddies", which contains people who have IM'd me, but I don't like enough to actually add to my real buddy list.

 

[Jasonbot]

I've got one big group with everyone called "Online Buddies", then I have the automatically generated "Recent Buddies", which contains people who have IM'd me, but I don't like enough to actually add to my real buddy list.

lol, thats good! But how do you create the auto generated group?

 

[spencers]

-home buddies
-college buddies

 

[Markleshark]

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