I’m anticipating that people are going to notice that my profile at Zune Social is a little different so let me go ahead and fill you in.

Something cool has went down as part of the update to zune.net:

I, along with a few others, have the ability to obtain one-way friends like some members of the Zune Team. Jessica (Jetherealz) has outfitted my profile page with the background that you see above as well as a few others.

So what happens? Essentially if you aren't already a friend of mine on Zune Social, then you can send a friend request. When you do, you'll see that it has been automatically accepted. On my end, I won't know that you've added me (so if you want to send me a private message or comment through Zune Social telling me hi and who you are that's fine). Yet, on your end, you'll see me as part of your friend's list. You can then sync my card to your device and all of that other good stuff that comes with have me as a friend.

I've always felt horrible having to tell people in the zune.net forums that I couldn't add them because I've reached my friend limit. At least with this Zune Social connection they can go ahead and add me if they want to. I'm pretty stoked (and honored) to be given this ability.

My buddies, and fellow Zune MVPs, Mike Stefani, Patrick Hefner and Corey Shuster also can now accept one way friends, so go ahead and add them to your list.