Quote Originally Posted by PondHollow View Post
I assume that most people make most of their in-game friends in the game (in my case, all), occasionally by looking up someone you were friendly with earlier and /tell-ing them ... if a new behavior arises that jeopardizes this it would be quite a magnificent loss. ;_;

Think of it like how Facebook gradually shifted its mission away from meeting new people and has now become solely about organizing existing relations. That would be incredibly unhealthy for a game like this.
1st paragraph: This is true for some. But the user would have to be aware of this ahead of time.

2nd paragraph: Didn't they bump the security because bad things were happening? PS4 and PS3 PSNs have many privacy settings to prevent people from getting to you. Including an "Incognito" mode. I get what you're saying, but options like these are made because of trolling, spam etc.