Outrageous messing with contacts by Lumia phones!

Im totally devastated and furious about how the Nokia Lumia handles contacts. When I got my phone I immediately as cautious person realised that something fishy is going on. Since  I want to keep my personal life and professional life separated. (Got my phone as work phone).
Hence I created secondary email at live.com to maintain my professional contacts. So that the phone doesnt do anything what I dont want it to do (These days all this facebook and whatnot sync stuff keens to be way too automated). But now, I went and checked my personal email with the phone, and BAM, all my contacts from personal email account was pulled to the phone. My whole address book was now bloated with old contacts that has been building up since late 90s.
And thats not all, the freaking phone draw ALL my phone contacts to the personal live account also! This is creating so much hate within me towards Nokia phones that they let Microsoft dominate and frankly speaking **bleep** the customers over.Now when I then proceeded to try restore the situation. Its not POSSIBLE! As I filter my main live account what was now cross populated my private account, ALL MY CONTACTS VANISHED FROM PHONE! Im furious. Im beyond description furious of this situation. I can not imagine wasting my day going through those hundreds and hundreds of contacts to try figure out what belongs where. This is serious breach againt my privacy. Now my 2 email accounts have been cross synced and my phone is without any contacts.
I fully acknowledge that it was my fault to make the mistake and use the inbuilt email app to chek my personal emails. It was sheer accident as I understood that this kind of situation can happen. But I would like to use my phone without fear of it  basicly totally screwing me over. I was cautious from the beginning and I slip once and the whole thing is big mess.
I have been loyal Nokia user since my 2110i phone but this ws last straw. This just made me genuinely want to throw this phone out of window and select some other brand.
For god sake let the users SELECT what to do, dont automate everything specially this kind of stuff that can not be recovered. Im very very disapointed about this situation

No idea what you are on about, contacts, while displaying in one combined view; the People Hub, are not mixed between accounts. When different accounts have contacts using the same name they will show as a linked contact, but all information in the contact data is still separated and one account does not have the info from another.
As soon as you remove an account all related contact information is removed. When adding information on the phone you are asked which account it needs to be added to. When creating a new contact you are likewise asked to which account you want the contact added.
Except for the primary account not having the contacts or calendars from that account on the phone is as simple as deselecting the option to include them in the email + account settings for that account.
Maybe you should take a breath, think about what it is you need or wish to know and then ask an actual question on it so we can help you with it. Going on a mindless rant is not going to get you anywhere here.
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