don't want gmail and phone contacts synced

I have synced my s3 with my gmail account because I want to be able to check my email with my phone (like every other human). I don't, however, want my contacts synced because it puts many many contacts in my phone (everyone I have ever emailed). I just want phone contacts in the phone. How do I do this? Google has not been much help.

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bearone21

settings/accounts/google or gmail....touch email address...select what you want synced.

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Ann154

Turn off the sync for contacts in the Gmail account on the phone.

marklutz

How do I go about doing that?

bearone21

settings/accounts/google or gmail....touch email address...select what you want synced.

Jakeman1

Another way is to turn off automatically adding email to your contacts. I email tons of different people and the only ones that show up in my contacts are the ones I put in my contacts. I do NOT automatically add emails to contacts as that is a completely useless feature for me.