That would make a lot more sense (it is just a photoshop mock-up by a random netizen, though). The grey boxes present at the moment don't achieve anything.

I like it too! Mock-up doesn't mean it's bad, just that it's not real.

It looks nice, now do something Sony!

Hey, I don't like being teased.....meanie.....

I would prefer if they would work along the lines of the mock-ups... but.... I was starting to like the gray bricks

current look is fine with me, but that looks cool too

was that an idea from a guy from a web forum ?

if so, then thanks for sony for the responding

How dare you?!

Everyone knows I am the biggest Microsoft fanboy on this site! D=<

It's like you don't even know me

I'm afraid it might slow down the XMB a little bit while playing games. I'm often sending messages while playing and I don't want it to take longer to go through the menu. Perhaps they could make a simple quick friends list while using in-game XMB and have a fancy one while just browsing the XMB.

Just reminds me how ugly and basic the ps3 friends lists are