Anonymity

There's also Proposal 1035

It would allow you to be invisible to folks on the friends list. Mapping and teleporting seem rude, but there probably is no way to code around rude people, in the end.

Whenever I accept a friendship I make a note on the person's profile summarizing what I know about them. A lot of them say "Friended me at Ahern. Don't know why." One of these days I'll have to prune the list.

I am doing something like that.

Anyway, if I see a friend of mine online and I would like to visit her/him, I always ask if I am welcome at that moment. I expect my friends to do the same towards me... and until now only one person did not so.

Morwen.

I don't visit people unannounced, but I don't generally mind if people visit my home unannounced because it's right next door to the gallery they might be visiting I sometimes use the map feature to check whether someone looks busy - I can tell if they're at home, or with someone, if I don't want to disturb them (which is kinda spying but with all good intentions!). Luckily I don't have any friends who just turn up wherever I am, and I wouldn't do it to them.

I also have a chunky friends list full of profiles noted "Newbie, helped find skin, pleasant but possibly insane" and other such comments that prove totally useless when I try and figure out who they are a week later.

I've started pruning occasionally. I used to feel bad looking at the list and spotting people I hadn't spoken to for ages, but then I realised, they didn't contact me either...