Browse others' friends lists with 360 fall update

by Justin McElroy on Nov 26th 2007 1:00PM

The size and quality of your Xbox 360 friends list is sort of like the thickness and number of pockets in your Trapper Keeper were in middle school: It's an undeniable barometer of coolness among a very specific subset of people. After Dec. 4's fall update, you'll finally be able to judge your friends' ~~binders~~ e-popularity with the new "Friends of Friends" feature.

Unless they've disabled it right here, you'll be able to flip through others' friends lists to see how they stack up to yours, maybe even add a few prized names to your own. It's a cool feature, but it has us a bit worried about list capacity. With the new opportunities to make friends, could we have more than 100? Please?

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i don't have anyone on my friend list

irl?

Oddly enough that is cool. It'll make it easier to say hey dude add this guy.. instead of having to write it down as long as you can remember the jist of their tag you can just pop on their list and get it... I think that is pretty cool...

Kinda useless, imo

Kind of like you?

ya stfu plz. noob.

Yes it is. Hopefully this is not the hallmark feature of the update.

DUMB. I'm blocking mine now.

Why don't they add something useful like a way for me to notate custom info on each friend. ie. what game I met them in, personal info I've gleaned from them by talking, etc.. A note pad page on each friend would do wonders in allowing me to keep track of them all. At this point.. if I don't interact with them in a few months I just delete them.

I've always been thinking about that too, but at least now they're adding your own personal profile page, that should help

Good idea.. we regularly have issues with trying to convey someone's gamertag to someone else for invite purposes.

And I agree.. the 100 limit is absolutely ridiculous for those of us that join online communities.. I literally have to delete chunks of friends every time I get a new game just to make room for different people.. which makes going back to play the old ones with the same friends practically impossible.

I have all the ten Friends seasons =(

condolences

Naa... it's funny. Chandler Bing is very funny (not like George Constanza, but still very funny).

My top 3 series are:

1. Seinfeld
2. Friends
3. Scrubs

"Friends" sitcom is dog crap turned white.

baaa baaaa

I used to watch friends a lot ... until I suddenly realized that the show sucks. It might be a result of having seen each episode 4-5 times.

Same with Will & Grace.

Sienfeld is aging well, though.

Few shows age well, and alas, Friends didn't. I mean you can only take so much of the will they/won't they mechanic before you just don't care anymore.

Now on the topic at hand...perhaps I don't understand it that well, but is this a glorified way of increasing your e-penis? Something akin to Facebook bragging rights?

And why Joey is hugging Monica...?

"Could I be anymore jealous?"

Jennifer Aniston FTW!

It's just another social feature, not unlike Facebook or Twitter or what-have-you.

I don't see anything wrong with it, as long as you can control whether the feature is enabled or how it's enabled, which Microsoft has covered.

So if you wants people to see your friends list, they will, if you don't, they won't.

Just from a perspective of adding friends of friends, it does make it rather convenient.

I'm all for more social features. Bring em on Microsoft! I was rather bummed that Call of Duty didn't have an online site to check your challenges among friends. Now that would have been cool.

Don't you mean the winter update? Or perhaps the Spring 2008 update?
=P

No, Fall ends December 21.

seriously.

And do we have divx support yet, or not?

Nope its still that fall update... just running really really late... Although with the weather around here in new england it still feels pretty fallish...

What I really want is a Internet browser... with that I'm happy.

Wasn't there a similar option on the old Xbox? I seem to recall being able to see the friends of my friends. It might have been through xbox.com or perhaps bungie.net but I really thought there was a way to do that in the past.

I could just be crazy.

What I would really like is to be able to organize the list so I can put my real-life friends at the top of it instead of having to scan for them alphabetically.

It'd also be nice to be able to set individual alerts.

i'd loooove kb/m support and FULL blade/menu customization. for things like rock band, you can already see the marketplace download list of it get a bit scroll-heavy and they've only just released it. imagine how long it'll take to find a song you want in 6 months

god, there are so many things the dashboard still needs, and it's real annoying that i can barely see my backgrounds because of ads or just unnecessarily large menus

Wow this is amazing.

I miss trapper keepers. They were the shit.

Cute, but I rather have 4 person private voice chat.
That is a feature I have wanted since the 360 launch.

Agreed, conference chat would rock... I don't see why this hasn't already been implemented, I've seen LOADS of people ask for this/complain about the lack of this.

This already enable. I do it all the times.

could care less of friends of friends....make my friend's list larger, THEN I'd be interested. But since Halo3/TF2 came out my friend's list is full of 25+older "mature" gamers, Custom games gamers, and people I meet in matches that are playing to have a good time.

Next update features Xbox Live giving out your credit card details to selected fraudsters.

That would have be enjoyable. 1 i have no credit lol and 2 i would get enough junk mail to heat my house through the winter. fuck oil or electric i got junk mail lol.

Who honestly has 100 friends? I mean, maybe the people that just add any old schmuck because he said more than five words, but who has 100 friends that they play with on a regular basis, and remembers shit about them? I believe I have like 15 friends on there, half are near by friends, the other are old Marine Corps buddies. And why the hell would you want to look at friends of friends? So you can ask them about some random tagged person? Dumbest idea ever. How about bringing something useful, maybe instead of spending millions of development costs on worthless shit, save that money and make live free. Call me crazy.

I can't wait for the customizable layouts, the Xbox Live Schools, Music, Groups, and Blogs feature.

When is the "Browse" going to drop? I need to find age 18-24 girls in my area.

Oh shit, can't forget the Bulletin Boards!

Who cares about this?

Let me have clan support and categorize my friends list first!

Nice feature, but I still want my Divx support dammit!!

AMEN! This transcode crap isn't working for me. Nope, not at all.

Now your chance to play Six Degrees of Shagittarius on Live.

LOL. Thats actually a good one shag.

But what of my real life friends? What shall I tell them?

Join XBL, I suppose.

Catergorizing friends would be nice. I have good friends and then a bunch of random adults I've played with that I will call upon if we are making a custom game. I'd like to be able to "check who is on" easily, then have another big chunk of schmuks that I sometimes invite or join a game with.

My biggest request would be for all online multiplayer games to use Halo 3 matchmaking and run as lag free as Halo 3 does. H3 isn't even that great of a game, yet has ruined superior games that don't run so smooth for me.

So, does this mean I'm going to start getting random spam messages from Gamertags like: "See_my_horny_pics", I'm_a_Slut", or "Nigerian_King_69"?

Because that's what's going to happen if Microsoft truly does want Xbox Live to become a social network clone.

Longer friend lists = the new gamerpoints = the new e-penis on XboxLive.

When will we be able to upgrade xbox without loosing downloaded content? I want watch movie and play arcade game I buy without being online.

its all coming to the light now.....Microsoft is out to kill Myspace!

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