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Remember Your Wii Friend Code the 1-800 Way
MTV's Stephen Totilo has a simple, common-sense solution to the issue of friend codes on the Wii: friend sentences. Using a tool like PhoneSpell.org, he advocates turning your incomprehensible code into something a bit more manageable. Instead of the sixteen digit mishmash that the Wii offers me, I can instead offer up "a-010-lure-texsku-50". Not a heck of a lot better, but certainly more memorable. "Each time, I had to send them my code, input theirs, and then wait for the Nintendo network to recognize we both wanted to be on each other's friends lists. A couple of months ago, however, my Wii broke. I got a new one. I was excited, but then spotted the dark lining to my silver cloud: My new system would force a new Friend Code on me, a Friend Code that I'd need to send out to everyone and hope they'd be willing to cancel my old listing and type in the new. That's when I realized the true pain of these 16-digit codes."
Actually, this makes me wonder - are friends going to be redefined?
It used to be that you had very few friends and these were people close to you that you spent time with regularly. Now, it has been redefined to any person that you play with on xbox, chat with on instant messaging or add to your myspace page because you both like the same crappy band.
I wonder if "friend" will even mean what it means today in another generation or two.