If your Xbox 360 video game console is the engine, My Xbox is the ride.
My Xbox is available when you connect to Xbox LIVE, the Xbox system's online gaming and entertainment service.
Through Xbox LIVE, you can set up My Xbox as your personal seamless integration of Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com.
My Xbox reflects the friends that you add and highlights the achievements you make with the online games you play, all in real time.
When you sign up for My Xbox, you get access to your friends list, your account information, your game achievements, the Xbox forums, and your gamer card.
Once inside My Xbox, you will see your fiends list, recent games played, and your achievements. On this home page, you will be able to control the following functions:

* Edit Profile
Profile displays basic information about yourself, which you may choose to share with people on Xbox.com and Xbox LIVE. Within your Profile page, your gamer card offers an at-a-glance look at your identity and gaming accomplishments. It includes you Gamertag, Gamer Zone (Either Recreation, Pro, Family or Underground), Gamer Picture, Motto, Name (or alternate nickname), Location and brief Bio.

* Privacy Settings
In this section, you can control settings that determine who can view your online status, communicate with you, your played games, gamer profile as well as your user generated content. The choices are Everyone, Friends Only, and Blocked. Please Note: Depending on the server load conditions, it could take up to four hours for changes to appear on your console.

* Contact Information
This is where you put down your basic personal information.

* Contact Preferences
Here is where you manage how you want to receive insider information, including games newsletters, promotional offers, as well as allowing your contact information to be shared with our third-party Xbox partners, such as game publishers. There is even an option to set your preference for receiving Xbox updates as messages on your mobile phone.

* Web Preferences and Favourites
Here, you can customise your online experience. Your web preferences will be part of your gamer profile for others to see. This information includes your favourite genres and favourite Xbox games.

* Forums Preferences
Here, among others, are settings for your desired time zone and options for displaying Forum items and topics.
With My Xbox, you can add friends whenever you feel you had a great gaming experience with someone. Send them a friend request from your Xbox 360 console. Another good venue for finding gamers is the forum.
My Xbox makes it easy to build your friends list on Xbox Live, and view which of your friends are online as well as the game that they're playing. You can also obtain detailed game information for friends playing Xbox 360 games.
All these are possible with My Xbox due to the rich online feature set of Xbox LIVE, your passport to engaging game play and great downloads.

Getting started takes just three steps:

1. Decide which membership level you want
The free Silver membership lets you build friends lists, send voice or text messages and download content. These include demos, arcades and full games, themes and game add-ons, gamer pictures as well as trailers from Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
The Gold membership, for a fee, adds online multiplayer gameplay and such added values as matchmaking, exclusive offers, and more community options

2. Connect your console to the Internet

3. Sign up, get into your personal My Xbox space, and have fun.