defriend

defriend
v.
To remove a person from one's list of friends on a social networking site. Also: de-friend, unfriend.
Example Citations:
After Jerome Kerviel lost his employer, French investment bank Societe Generale, $7.2 billion, he also lost 7 of his 11 friends on Facebook. Smart move (MVE) by those ex-friends. You never know who's looking at your profile. Of course, at some point, you might be in a similar situation. Because this kind of thing happens all the time. So here's how to defriend that guy who just went into hiding after losing $7.2 billion.
—" How to stop being Facebook friends with that guy who lost $7 billion: http://valleywag.com/350099/how-to-stop-being-facebook-friends-with-that-guy-who-lost-7-billion," ValleyWag, January 29, 2008
What social-media users are having none of is deception. Members expect authenticity from each other, so they're turned off, say experts, when someone doesn't say they're affiliated with a certain product yet are obvious evangelists. ...
Ultimately, abusive practices can backfire as members "de-friend" shills, says Jeff Beringer, vp of the Web relations group at GolinHarris, a telecom-marketing services firm.
—Joan Voight, "The New Brand Ambassadors," Adweek, December 31, 2007
Earliest Citation:
defriend
(v) To remove someone from your livejournal friends list.
"I defriend people who post quiz results. Get a life!"
—Coell, " defriend: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=defriend&defid=2902093," Urban Dictionary, May 14, 2005
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  • defriend — verb To remove from ones list of friends (e.g. on a social networking website). But why subject myself and friends to the awkward social construct of being virtually defriended because I want to save some space on a Web page? Syn: unfriend Ant:… …   Wiktionary

  • defriend — UK [ˌdɪˈfrend] / US verb [transitive] to deliberately remove someone from your list of friends on a social networking website …   English dictionary

  • defriend — /diˈfrɛnd/ (say dee frend) verb (t) → unfriend. –defriended, adjective –defriending, noun …  

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  • unfriend — verb /ʌnˈfɹɛnd/ a) To stop being the friend of. I hope, sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us. b) To defriend; to remove from ones friends list (eg on a social networking website). I asked her… …   Wiktionary

  • LiveJournal — URL Livejournal.com …   Wikipedia

  • friend — 1. noun /frɛnd/ a) A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. The Automobile Association is every motorist’s friend. b) A boyfriend or …   Wiktionary

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