Reduce amount of redundant entries in the people tab

I noticed the people tab duplicates list entries for the same profile depending if you are either connected to the user, following the user, or if the user is following you. I understand these are distinct states, but I don't think the current UI would scale well. In below picture for example we have 5 entries for only two test accounts this user has interacted with:

If the user say has interacted with 30 people or so, there would likely be close to 70-90 total entries listed.

Some UI suggestions that could scale better perhaps:

1. Have a tabbed interface for viewing "My Connections", "People I'm following", and "My followers"
2. Just list the entries and have badges next to the names indicating if the person is a connection, follower, or you are following
3. Just list any person you have interacted with and when you open up the profile details page, it will indicate if that user is a connection, follower, or you are following

Also I am not sure of the future plans of the app, but if we ever expand to support direct messaging functionality, just listing people without any categories like in option 2 and 3 would flow better for that use-case (e.g. something like tap on person's entry -> screen is now in either in direct message timeline view or in the person's profile details page)