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"Suggest a Friend" is quite bad!
I'm not sure if it's because the system only looks at who is attached to your friends' profiles (rather than their messenger contacts, which might be so much more useful) but I've yet to find anybody I know in real life through this feature.
Why not look at your contact's messenger lists too, or perhaps go the way of Facebook and allow you to suggest contacts and people to your friends. For example, if I add "Andy" to my profile, perhaps give me the option, at that point, to suggest other contacts that might know Andy?
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I don't want to be seeing bunch of random people and having them try to add me
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I think this idea has merit. I like the way that Facebook gives me the option to search a given "geographic network," which really helps whittle down the list of people to just those who live in my vicinity. Maybe flesh out the idea a bit more, but +1 for now.
hoopla_punta wrote on March 5, 2009, 3:58pm
Comparing to amount of users in Facebook and Live, there is a vast amount (speaking maybe more than the human population) of Live accounts, from spambots to that-one-just-for-that-special-use accounts, each with crazy names, data etc.
So it is very hard for Windows Live to add such functionality, without limiting it from searching so many accounts. If they do however, they might limit it to like, a common society, country, town, school etc. But it will be quite a feat for them I would say.