I'm more interested in the social aspects of the advantages this app would give us. The idea came from when I had to quit the game for a while because I lost my job and couldn't pay for the game and I was the leader of a linkshell, so I looked for ways to contact them but it was barely any good. The social networks weren't enough. Somewhere along that time I just got the smart phone android which had recently came out and I searched for a "ffxi linkshell app" and I actually found one but it turned out to be a big let down because it was useless and defective.
If I were a tech nerd or a programmer or had the remote idea on how to make apps I would work hard to create one that serves this purpose. Friend lists, email messaging, and status updates would only be bonuses to this app IMO and messaging would be more of my interests. Why not just use one of the existing messengers? Because you can't expect your friends to always be online chatting through messengers AND not everyone prefers the same messenger program and in the same chat session. This could maybe be another extension to the existing Linkshell Community SE has created. Being able to switch through all your LSs and chat with them in real time even if you're not logged in game, there is a lot of possibilities with only that one function.
Of course this should be implemented in FFXIV as well...

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