Pseudo-Clan with Friends of Friends

In a few hours, the fall dashboard update will be upon us, and with it comes one of the most controversial additions to the 360, "Friends of Friends".  What this new feature allows for is looking up who's on your friends list.  While some people think this is a great idea and can't wait to expand their own list, others see it as an unholy invasion of their privacy.

Over on the Neo-GAF forums, the resourceful Gowans007 has come up with a brilliant idea of how to turn the new feature into what many people were hoping for from the update itself, Clan support.  His idea is to setup a Silver account with the new feature turned on, and then have anyone who wants to be in the group send a friends request.  That way you can always tell who is part of the group, and who's currently online.

Never one to let a good idea un-stolen, we've set up just such an account :)  So if you'd like to join us for some XBLA fun, simply send a friends request to the gamertag XBLArcade by clicking here.

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Great idea.
Great idea.
Neo-GAF the home of new ideas?!?
Maybe it's coincidence, but it was also a brilliant idea when Tycho posted it on Penny Arcade last week too.
And E also mention it on

And e also mention it on Major Nelsons latest podcast :)

 

It's very likely that others

It's very likely that others had the idea first, but my point of mentioning Gowan wasn't to say he had the original idea, but rather just to point out that it sure as hell wasn't me :)