If you've turned on your Xbox 360 this week you may have noticed a nice message from Xbox Live telling you about the December 4th update.  The message talked about a change to your friends list and how to adjust the security of your friends list.  This December Xbox Live is opening up your friends list so that you can see who is on anyone's friends list.  Know the gamertag for Gilbert Arenas?  Look him up and see who his friends are or see Michael Jordan's gamer score.

Of course you have the ability to limit who is allowed to see who your friends are.  That is why you got the message to your Live account.  You can go online and modify the security of your friends list to be one of three options: Everyone, Friends Only or Blocked.  Currently your friends list is blocked from everyone but after December 4th it will be open to everyone. 

I kind of like the feature and it's a bit more like social networking sites LinkedIn or FaceBook.  I will definitely limit my friends list access to Friends Only.  The idea is to make it easier to add friends to your list and get more people playing online together.  I personally don't see this change effecting me at all.  The link to edit your friends list access is below.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/fof