Friends List Query
Can you access Freinds Lists of Freinds etc (to the point of viewing thousands, if not millions of Freinds of Freinds of Freinds etc) ?. Have you got a limit on how many friend lists down you can go from one Freinds List.
Surely if someone was to write a program that did this automatically they could log quite a few thousand Live IDs for purposes such as spamming and hacking individual accounts? Is this possible? Nice feature but i dont think it'll work to well if someone was to do this.
Short answer: No.
In order to access a user's contacts list or friends list, you (the developer) need the permission of the user to access their data. With the user's ok, your app has access to their immediate contacts. That's all, nothing else.
To access the friends list of each of those contacts, you would need the permission of each of those users as well. That's not very practical.
There are ideas bouncing around here about how to leverage the "friends of friends" cloud, but the first priority in all such scenarios is to ensure the privacy of every member of that extended group. Annonymity is king. There is a ton of interesting info that can be gleaned from the annonymous statistics about a person's extended network without compromising anyone's identity or privacy.
-Danny
