NEWSFLASH:FRIENDS OF FRIENDS COMING TO XBOX LIVE

[SYN Jerriel]

Published November 26, 2007

Microsoft is making it even easier to expand your Friends network on Xbox LIVE®, starting with the Fall Dashboard Update on December 4. You'll be able to check out the friends lists of fellow Xbox LIVE members right from the Dashboard. With this new feature, members can find old friends or connect with new ones within the community of more than eight million people on Xbox LIVE around the globe and send messages and game invites, as well as compare games and Achievements.

With the prevalence of social media websites such as MySpace and FaceBook, this type of capability has largely come to be expected from consumers as a means to relate in an online community. Xbox LIVE continually seeks new ways to better serve the expectations of its members, which often result in free enhancements made available through the bi-annual Dashboard updates.

Friends List Settings
When the Fall Dashboard update is distributed on December 4, the new default setting on Xbox LIVE will be active, enabling members to see the Friends lists of other Xbox LIVE members. If you'd like to keep your friends list private, you can take the following steps to change your settings beginning today:

Log in to www.xbox.com/fof and select one of the three options available for your Gamertag:

* Everyone (only available to members 18 and older)
* Friends only (available to members 13 and older)
* Blocked (available to all members, and automatic for anyone under the age of 13)

Stay tuned for more information about the Xbox 360 Dashboard Update later this month!

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http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/...26-foflive.htm

(original post by XGC Eternal XS)

 

[XGC MEGA XD]

Hey, this could be very useful.

With this new feature, members can find old friends or connect with new ones within the community of more than eight million people on Xbox LIVE around the globe and send messages and game invites, as well as compare games and Achievements.

It seems like you could browse other users friends lists and (hopefully) view them exactly like you view your own. If so, this could come in handy for XG.

For example, if I was a General I could create a secondary gamertag and get my entire clan on that tag. Set the Friends List to public or friends only... then, anyone in the clan could access that gamertag's friends list and use it exactly like a clan list.

There could be a gamertag with all the Section Leaders on it, Council Members (or anyone with a very full friends list) could add that tag instead of adding all the Section Leaders individually.

I was hoping for a larger friends list, but this might be even more effective. Obviously, my ideas require that someone purchases an extra gamertag... but lots of members of XG leadership were doing this in Halo 2 to work with the clan system there.

Actually, just by browsing, if people had there lists set to public or friends only we could find anyone in XG eventually. Very cool.

They still have not announced all the details of this update, so hopefully there will be more features added.