Abstract: Provided is a terminal, including: a state information acquisition unit, which is used for acquiring state information about each contact person in a contact person list according to a preset time period; a state information paring unit, which is used for parsing the state information about each contact person, so as to judge whether the state information about any contact person of all the contact persons and the state information about at least one other contact person of all the contact persons have an associated content or not; and a group dividing unit, which is used for automatically dividing contact persons corresponding to the state information having the associated content, which are taken as relevant contact persons, into one group in the case where there is the associated content. Further proposed is a method for grouping contact persons.