shidoshi said:The problem is, a lot of people who aren't as tech and news savvy might not know about this entire thing, or that they need to turn it off instead of deciding to turn it on.
Privacy is and should be a very important matter. Most sites or social services (at least the ones I've used) have always required the user to ALLOW other people to see these kinds of details, not DENY them.
But how is this invasion of privacy though? You can't even see someone's real name via their GamerTag, and this is basically expanding the the 100 Friends maximum with zero effort...
In fact, this is can even be used effectively better than Clan Support by going through friends of friends...
Imagine if it works with Silver accounts as well: you can make one called Halo GAF Clan, and have everyone add that account - with that one account, every single GAFfer with XBL is linked by only using one slot - think of the possibilities...
If this was invasion of privacy, it would count for adding a group of complete strangers after a good team game as well...