Contacts app automatic Link - serious problem

I used the stock software for Sony Xperia Z2.
I am incredibly frustrated with the way the contacts app links contacts randomly and without my input.
Every now and again I have to delete all the contect on the Contacts app so I stop getting the "unfortunatelly contacts has sttopped" messate.
Everytime i do it, the application decides to link together contacts that are not at all related following some random set of rules. Funny enough, the links the application decides to stablish don't happen in the same way everytime everytime I do it.
This means that I spend more time sorting my phone contacts than enjoying my "top of the range" phone.
My Nexus S, more than four years old and running on 4.4.4, doesn't suffer any problems like this with the default contacts application.
Is there any way I can disable the automatic linking option from my phone?? Because that would be ideal!!!
Kind Regards,
Javi

I'm afraid i don't know of any way to disable linking of contacts but i will forward this internally as feedback.
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I have two email accounts set up on my PB, plus Facebook, plus Twitter, plus LinkedIn. The contacts app automatically attempts to link these accounts so that when I pull up, for example, John Smith, I get all of his contact info (facebook, email, etc) on one screen.
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The messages app is supposed to link only people with same first and last name.
Seeing as this post was not answered earlier in August either, and the manual does not suggest a remedy, then maybe the problem is specific to your account and email provider combination, and in fact people are not suffereing this in any numbers.
So I would suggest you use the Messages app for email only and use either the plain browser with bookmarks for social networking or the specific Facebook and Twitter apps. You should get status messages sent to your email address anyway I guess.
Most similar problems in the forum have been when using email with social network accounts in Messages, Removing the social stuff usually remedies it.
Social networking providers do their best to cross contaminate and maybe this app puts the final touches to it.
I know people do use them for business so I will suppress my usual derision for such "social" networking services, but I admit to never using them on Playbook, so more informed advice is still welcomed.

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I dont know when, why or how but suddenly I notes that all my records on the Contacts App are linked to each other randomly !!
I have to rearrange the links again (record by record) / (contact by contact) but after a while it returning back again with the random links on some records (contacts) !!
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Welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums.
Currently the BlackBerry Desktop Software does support Windows Live Mail,
The following applications are supported for synchronization with BlackBerry® Desktop Software 6.1:
•IBM® Lotus Notes® 6.5.5, 7.04, 8.0.3, and 8.5.1
•Microsoft® Outlook® 2003, 2007, 2010 (32bit & 64bit mode)
•Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and Windows® Contacts (Windows Vista™ Address Book and Windows Vista Calendar, Windows 7™ Address Book)
•Novell® GroupWise® 6.5, 7
•Yahoo!®
This information can be found here: http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/KB12268
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