It's sucks having different friends on each character, what you guys think about combined list of your friends so you have one list for all your characters, or implanting an account name,

Example: your account name is John, john has 3 characters, when John plays on his bear and Kathy befriends him, she doesn't befriend the bear she befriends John, so next time john plays on his bird Kathy will see that her friend John is playing on his bird, instead like now you don't see when your friend is playing until you add all of his characters and him yours