I doubt I am the only one with people on their friends list who feel the need to invite you to their games or parties every time that you come online; my god it's annoying. Being the kind hearted person I am I dislike telling them to piss off and leave me alone. Does anyone else think that having a feature that allows us to choose whether we appear online or offline when we first sign in to Xbox Live would be a great idea?

im always appearing offline

Get better friends.

 Just ignore them if you don't want to chat.

You could go to your privacy settings and block your online status to everyone.  If you do this, I don't think they can ever see you as online so it might not even give them the option to invite you to a game ever.

Or you could turn notifications off so you never see invites, then tell your "friends" that you're too lazy to turn them back on if they complain.

I guess there is a long winded route: unplug your ethernet cable, sign in, go to preferences and choose Appear Offline, plug cable back in.
Or, do what I do and ignore people, then if they ask you why, say you were making a sammich when they sent the message

"I guess there is a long winded route: unplug your ethernet cable, sign in, go to preferences and choose Appear Offline, plug cable back in.
Or, do what I do and ignore people, then if they ask you why, say you were making a sammich when they sent the message"

I go with the old "i was away and missed the invite"

If you plain don't like those people, just remove them and ignore them.  It's the internet, you can do that sort of thing.

There is no default option to appear offline, outside of disabling anyone to see your status entirely.

I either just set it to Appear Offline as soon as I get on, or as soon as I get a message/invite from somebody. I don't make excuses about it, I just ignore them, and if they ask I just tell them I didn't feel like playing Call of Duty or whatever. Most people don't seem to care.

Grow some balls and ask them to stop or delete them off your list entirely. I also had that problem and it concluded in losing "friends".

Yeah, ignoring invites and stuff isn't really a big deal but I would like the appear offlien feature to be available from sign in.

I usually just go to appear offline or away if i dont feel like chatting. Sometimes I just want to play by myself and not talk. Expecially when your playing a game where the story is important. I have a lot of friends that are always in party chat so I know how you feel.

Just to go preferences and choose the "Appear Offline" option before you sign into your account. Then when you sign in you won't be seen as "online."

Yes, as the post above states. Set your account to NOT sign in automatically at start up.  Then go to preferences via the Guide Button before you sign in to any profile (you must do this everytime before you login). Then when you sign in, you will appear offline from the get go.

Ignore them.

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I used to just ignore people, but after a while I felt like I was being a bad friend so I started accepting every request, and now I seem to be having more fun on my xbox so i guess it all worked out

No heresthe fool proof way instead of having automatic sign in everytime you boot up your xbox make it so you have to manually have to sign in doing this you can go appear offline before you sign on. I personally use this method. 

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No heresthe fool proof way instead of having automatic sign in everytime you boot up your xbox make it so you have to manually have to sign in doing this you can go appear offline before you sign on. I personally use this method. 

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"I doubt I am the only one with people on their friends list who feel the need to invite you to their games or parties every time that you come online; my god it's annoying. Being the kind hearted person I am I dislike telling them to piss off and leave me alone. Does anyone else think that having a feature that allows us to choose whether we appear online or offline when we first sign in to Xbox Live would be a great idea?"

"Just to go preferences and choose the "Appear Offline" option before you sign into your account. Then when you sign in you won't be seen as "online.""