Shoutbox

Not sure if this is the correct section to post but here goes =p

my MSN contacts keep randomly "connecting" to my windows live profile. Ive set my profile so its very private and no one can view my friends list or really any information at all.

To test it worked, i made a "dummy" hotmail account and added it to msn as a contact and connected with it on windows live profile page. When i use this "dummy account" to view my real accounts profile, i cant see anything at all really, it just says "miranda doesnt have any friends or you dont have permission to view them" which is good yes =)

HOWEVER....when i click "see suggestions" for people to add, it suggests half of my friends list <.< so really...keeping your friends list private doesnt work ? ? ? ? since it suggests half of them to my "dummy" email address anyway? Or is this because it somehow knew the dummy address n real address were using the same msn messenger to log in from same PC? Also...i deleted a couple of contacts and got rid of them, yet its STILL showing them as friend suggestions for my dummy account, what is tht about!!!

So your account is configured to no show any of your friends on your profile to anybody (including your own friends). Yet when you create a fresh account and add yourself as friend on that dummy account it will show several of your friends as suggestions to the dummy account?

I guess it is because of the privacy settings of your friends. Go to the profile pages of people suggested to the dummy account. Chance is you will show up on their profile as one of their friends. Only way to prevent that would be to ask all your contacts to hide their friend lists. Or complain to the Windows Live Profiles team: http://windowslivehelp.com/product.aspx?productid=13. You have a point.