mutual (friend etc.)

Jim Parish jparish at SIUE.EDU
Fri Sep 22 19:35:57 UTC 2006


Chris F Waigl wrote:
> I've recently played around with the LiveJournal platform, one of the
> salient features of which is the fine control it allows over who can
> read what on one's journal. On the simplest level, this can be achieved
> by declaring another LJ user one's "friend". There's also a verb to
> refer to the action: "Can I friend you?", "She friended me" etc.

There's also the verb "defriend", referring to the act of removing
someone from your friends list.

Jim Parish

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