Not sure about Facebook... I don't want people to see how many time I spend playing... hum.
Twitter is ok, I like checking the one of Felicia Day, Penny Arcade or Major Nelson sometimes...but I don't have a personal one.

How does the arcade have anything to do with this?

Silver members will be no worse off than they were. Gold members now get some extra features thrown in. What's the big deal? I guess it's a big deal if you don't own an Xbox 360 and you have Playstation-related stuff in your sig, but I doubt a huge number of people who actually own a 360 care that much.

Good

I was expecting this and I could give a fuck less about facebook/twitter. Bring on the LastFM though.

I expected this and have no problem with it, more features for us gold members!

I don't see any problem with this. Actually MS should have charged more as it seems so many are willing to pay for a service that is free on any computer or mobile phone.

I don't have an x360 but if I did I really don't see how this will temp me into getting a gold membership.

MS should do more of this kind of stuff and double the gold subscription price.

I think this is bad, since I felt that the Twitter and Facebook integration catered more to "casuals" and those who want to use their Xbox as a media device.

I'm just wondering why you are complaining about features on Xbox Live when you don't own an Xbox 360, yet own a PS3.

I would be suprised if it was anything else, but then I am a Gold member. Clearly this is a classic Free versus Paid but as I have said all along this is NOT the facebook you get when you visit the Website this is a fully integrated facebook.

Personally I think it would be good to have extended the social stuff to Silver members as it would potentially of been a bigger draw. After all the Gold members already subsidise the silver membership and I would of been happy to subsidise this as well.