>>338816524
If someone is in orange status or in a private world, perhaps they don't want to be joined on? hmmm 

[spoiler]If people could appear offline, the whole system breaks down. You /never/ look through offline friends and half your online friends might not even appear as being online. If you want to kill your purely social game by putting up the biggest barriers to even playing it, then thank god you guys aren't in charge over there.[/spoiler]