I am just wondering how many people who use Live a lot have both people they meet online and people they have hanged out with in person in there friends. I just got Live and haven't added anyone to my friends list mainly because I don't really know anyone who has an Xbox 360. I do know a person who does have live, and has had it for awhile (I don't consider him my friend so I haven't asked for his gamertag), besides me he does not know a person that he has actually met that has an Xbox but has a ton of friends on his friends list. I just want to know what it is like for you, is everyone in your friends list just people you have met online, is it the exact opposite, or is it a little bit of both?

there are like 4 or 5 people i know in rl that are in my friends list. i stopped giving out my gamertag (or even talking about xbox live to avoid the subject of gamertags) because i hate it when im turn on my xbox to play a game and get game invites.

I have no one in RL on my friend's list. There's one guy there, but he's really my friend's friend. :(

I have 1 person on my friends list that isn't my real life friend

Practically nobody I know has a 360 so none.

If I am playing a multiplayer-based game for a long time, then I add people I meet on XBL on my friends list for the duration of my play time with that game. Once I am done with the game I take them off my friends list, the only people I keep on my friends list permanently are my friends from school.

/shrug

<---Trust issues.

I have never met a single XBL friend in person. Ever. I do not know another person in real life who actually plays games...and if they do, they're just a girl who loves the DS and Wii.

85 % real life friends.

I'd say half and half are real friends and online friends.

Mostly real life friends, i seem to only run into those little 12yr old halo fanatics and they just annoy me...

Only a few of them are real-life friends. Most of my real friends don't play games, and the few of them that do really don't play much online.

All of mine are, same with Xfire, PSN, MSN, AIM, Steam, I don't add people who I don't know personally. Well... no, tell a lie, one of my Live friends was the co-creator of Poker Smash on XBLA but he added me, how could I refuse? Apart from him, yeah, online friends are creepy things to have in my opinion, aquiantances sure but friends? No.

I have 6 friends I know irl. I only have like 15 people on my friends list. I had a full friends list before, but I stopped playing for awhile and when I started playing again, they either never played the games I was, or just didn't come online anymore, so I took them off.

I don't have friends so everyone on my list is 100% random people.

I have just 1 friend on my list, and he's been a friend since we were kids.  I don't really add random people to the list.  If someone requested a friendship though I wouldn't necessarily turn it down, but I don't really see the point unless I'm in a clan or something.

My friends list has a couple of family members on it.
One friend of a family member that I'm not really familiar with but sometimes play with anyway.
A couple of people I don't know that just added me out of nowhere.
And the remainder are folk I've met online through forums and such.

So family aside theres no one I really know offline on my friends list.

I only add people I know in real life. I don't like a bunch of random messages and game invites popping up. I figure if I want to play with random people I don't know I'll do a quick match.

I have like 7 or 8 people on my list that I know in real life. I don't play much at all with the random people on my list, a lot of them are people I met playing Skate or people that send me friend request after a match in GH3.

I have around 50% that I know IRL

Everyone that Im friends with that does have an Xbox360 is in my friends list. the other half of the gamertags in there are people that I played against or with and had a good time with them, you know the rare users that dont swear like maniacs and arent spoiled children...

and one thing that you shouldnt forget is that by submitting review about people who you enjoy playing with and also about people who annoyed you, you can help the matchmaking systeme make better choices for you. A-holes that you submit bad reviews about will rarely if not never show up in your games...

and when you hear someone screaming like an idiot or something, be sure to mute him, its really easy and they will end up continuing to scream without you hearing them.

I have maybe 20 real life friends on my list. About 96 total.

"I have maybe 20 real life friends on my list. About 96 total."

I have a total of two RL friends on Live.

"85 % real life friends."

there are 3 people on my friends list who I know in real life. the other's (about 10 I think) are people who I've met online.

I have one person on my list who I know IRL and he hasn't signed in for over 100 days now.

No real life friends. All internet friends.

Yeah, about 40-50% of the people on my list, I know in real life.  I basically talked a couple of guys into getting a 360, and it spread from there.  Basically our entire school plays now.

I don't have that many friends on XBL to begin with. Most of them are people I've met online. Less than 15% are people that I've met in person.

Out of my 25 friends, around 5 or so are my real life friends. The rest are people I've met online, a good chunk of which frequent this website.

i have like 10-12 real life friends out of the 50 something in my friendslist

About 10 people on my friends list out of 60 I know IRL.

7 out of the 12 people on my friends list are guys I know IRL.

60% or so, maybe higher is real friends.

I have a grand total of 16 XBL friends all of whom are my real friends. Wondering if the small no. of friends is just cuz most people have "online" frineds, or does no one like me?

I'd say at least half of my friend's list is made up of people I know in real-life.

I only got 22 and 3 i don't know in real life... so 86%

"I am just wondering how many people who use Live a lot have both people they meet online and people they have hanged out with in person in there friends. I just got Live and haven't added anyone to my friends list mainly because I don't really know anyone who has an Xbox 360. I do know a person who does have live, and has had it for awhile (I don't consider him my friend so I haven't asked for his gamertag), besides me he does not know a person that he has actually met that has an Xbox but has a ton of friends on his friends list. I just want to know what it is like for you, is everyone in your friends list just people you have met online, is it the exact opposite, or is it a little bit of both?"

20 of my list of 22 are IRL friends whether from Uni or back in High School.

I know most of the people on my friendlist, with the exception of a few people I just met online.

But, like you say there are very few people that I know who have an xbox 360, basically because most people I know aren't gamers of any kind or are extremely casual gamers.

Hmm..right now I have about 80 friends and I know about 7 of them in real life =]
Anywho..Yeppo thats about it..I think I need a list cleaning =P

i dont really understand the weird mentality of adding ppl to you friends list when youve just played a single mp session with them - i guess its essentially the same thing you get on facebook and that though. i just get get what you get out of having 80 ppl on the list that you dont even know. sometimes i'll almost mute the tv and listen to music or a podcast while im gaming and i still get friends requests - seriously what the fuck is that all about?!

of the 22 folk on my xbl friends list only four arent real life friends, and those four are specifically ppl i play rainbow six vegas 2 mp with.

I only have 1 real friend on my XBL list and he's one of my better friends from all the way back in highschool.   Otherwise, I don't know that many people with 360s.

I don't really like adding random people anymore, only a few people on my friend list are people I don't know in real life.

There are only a few (less than 10) people on my friends list that are real-life friends. One of them is my brother, 3 of them are people I know online but have been very good friends with for several years. Then there are a few people that I play CoD4 or TF2 with often, but I met them online too. The rest are random people from forums and XBL matches that sent me requests. I generally delete these people after i don't hear from them for a month.

What really sucks is that none of the people I know in real life (and who live nearby) don't have Xbox Live accounts, except for my brother. Half of them don't even have Internet at home, and there are a lot of good multiplayer games that don't have split-screen modes. System Link isn't always an option either since it can be a hassle dragging over an extra box and TV, and you can't just play 1v1 Deathmatch custom matches all day.

I only put real-life friends on my list, so about 12