Green phone icons in contact connections

[hereathome]

When I open my contacts list and select any contact, there is a field called "connection" with multiple green icons with phones in them. Tapping the icons says they are joined contacts. A couple of questions arise.

Why are there multiple "connections"?

What are the connections joined to?

And is there a way to get rid of what appear to be joined contacts without going through each contact individually?

Thanks for any help.

 

[EvilMonkey]

Welcome to AC.

Connections just join the same person together (so you can have the same person as a Google contact, a Facebook contact, a Skype contact, a work email contact, etc). That way he shows up as a single person/contact on your phone instead of several.

For example,on mine I have a contact with connections like this:


So he's a Google Contact, but I have him joined to two things (Exchange/Work is the square on the left, and I also have him as a Skype contact).

If you click on the connections section, it should open up and tell you what the connections are or what the icons mean.

 

[hereathome]

So a phone icon simply means he/she is a phone contact? Why would I have as many as 5 or 6 phone connections for the same person?