1. A method for utilizing user profile data maintained by an interactive media guidance application, comprising: accessing user profile data associated with television programming; receiving a user input, wherein the user input is associated with a command to search for one or more friendly profiles that comprise friendly profile data associated with television programming; generating search criteria associated with the user profile data; accessing at least one storage device that is used to store the friendly profile data; searching the at least one storage device for friendly profile data that matches the search criteria; generating search results including at least one friendly profile that comprises friendly profile data that matches the search criteria; and displaying the search results to the user.