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Cascading Contacts List (of pirates)

When I see you online on my IM contacts list, why can't I see your contacts (that are online) too?
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I propose that this would entirely change the nature of IM. If not only could I see you online on the contacts list, but see who of your contacts were also online, and perhaps also if a conversation is being engaged in right now. I don't think it'd be required to know what you're saying, but the simple act of knowing who your friends friends are will, I suspect, fundamentally alter the way we use IM.
Ian Tindale, Jan 09 2008

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       you could probably implement this in jabber via publish-subscribe - currently you can, for example, publish your mood or the music playing right.
erlehmann, Jan 09 2008
  

       Your <get "fictitious relationship">, H1llary Cl1nt0n is *online*
-----His friends are:
----------EllenDeg114 *online*
----------BBhutto966 *offline*
----------KDLiang *online*
----------BOMbama *online*
----------WilliRclinton446 *blocked*
----------Oil_oligarchs.net *online*
  

       Hillarity ensues.
4whom, Jan 09 2008
  

       //why can't I see your contacts (that are online)//   

       You nosey parker.
Jinbish, Jan 09 2008
  
      
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