Don't complain about a shortage of contacts. When I first installed MS Messenger I asked people that were interested to share their MS Messenger info so I could add them to my contact list. My thread got only 13 Posts, and I only added like 7-8 names. It looks like you got more.
Cheers!
P.S. and of those few I added to my contact list, I rarely make 'contact' unless I have a good reason. When I want to chat I pop over to #se4 on Gamesurge.net