I just created a small buddy list to see what it does.
It tells you some small amount of information about each user, whether they are online or not.
Depending on how your preferences are set up you can control a few other things.
Stayed, I am not sure if I have answered your question yet.
Maybe you should just create a buddy list for yourself and see what happens.
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