Defriend

With that on my mind, I begin to think of the entire "defriend" - "defriended" - "defriending" concept, It struck me that although the words are new and vastly unappealing, they point to an aspect of the marvelous but often prickly institution of friendship. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What I will deny is that "defriend," "defriended" and "defriending" are words I want to use -- on or off Facebook -- even if they apply to an irrefutable, though unfortunate, human condition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And I wouldn't hold a grudge against No. 144, if she had suddenly decided to "defriend" me after all these weeks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When her curiosity was satisfied, she would "defriend" the object of her curiosity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Social media", a new addition, arrives along with offspring "defriend" (removing someone from your list of friends or contacts), "microblogging" (posting very short blog entries) and ❋ Unknown (2010)

The English language will celebrate its one millionth word next month, with "defriend", "noob" and "chiconomics" among the candidates, linguistic experts have predicted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In my experience, "defriend" not "unfriend" is standard usage for facebook users. jellis58 says: and I just asked my roommate and her friend what they would say if they wanted to remove a facebook friend and they both instantly said defriend. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I should, at the very least, have been given warning of this impending change and been allowed time to "defriend" people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For instance, when is it OK to "defriend" someone from Facebook?

As you can see, they have been arming up and daring the party to "defriend" them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"defriend," removing someone from a list of friends or contacts on a social networking site, and "tweetup," a meeting organized via posts on Twitter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"defriend", removing someone from a list of friends or contacts on a social networking site, and "tweetup", a meeting organised via posts on Twitter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some pedantic Facebookers are pointing out that the expression they've been using all this while is "defriend" (though others respond that "Unfriend sounds like a natural English coinage to me - if Shakespeare was happy to use

In this often confusing era of electronic amity, Facebook users casually add friends and acquaintances to their list of friends, but then at some point, cravenly defriend them in the dead of night while no one is watching. ❋ Joe Queenan (2011)

If you post Twitter feeds to your LJ without a cut tag, and said feed makes up 75% or more of your "content", I must defriend you for my own sanity, because you are hardcore interfering with my ability to read real content and have actual conversations. * nod* ❋ Dragonsflame71 (2009)

"[I'm fed up with] her [politics] and her [crowd]. I'll just defriend her!" ❋ Andrex_ca (2017)

1. a) "Can you believe Amy [defriended] me because I'm dating Chris? She only doesn't like him because he turned down her friend Nicole two years ago. How lame." b) "Yeah, so I had to defriend Charlie. He kept [cluttering] up my friendlist with stupid memes, and we haven't even communicated in a year. We'll probably never see each other again, so there's no point. 2. Julie: "I really like [Sawyer] and Kate together on Lost!" Sara: "Really? I prefer Jack and Kate, I don't really like Sawyer." Julie, jokingly: "I can't believe you think that! Oh my god you are SO defriended!" ❋ AllysonLinn (2008)

"If I [get one] more Facebook-application [request] from that [idiot] I'm going to defriend him." ❋ Watman (2008)

Typical Person: "I had to totally defriend [Margaret] Mary. I don't want [that slut] looking at my profile anymore." Sarcastic Person: "Sounds like the [breakup] was hard on everyone." ❋ Ex-cretin (2009)

"If I [get one] more Facebook-application [request] from that [idiot] I'm going to defriend him." ❋ Watman (2008)

He was tired of always inviting Dave to things and never once did Dave show up. Not to dinners, not to movies, not to free concerts, not to the clubs, nothing. Most of the time, he never even got a response, [yay or nay]. And Dave never invited him anywhere. [Hal] was through with the whole thing and after all this time, finally, [defriended] the one guy he thought would be his pal forever. ❋ Nolana Plume (2009)

We [broke up] and he was [childish] enough to defriend me on [Myspace]. ❋ One Who Was Defriended... (2006)

He [defriended] me a year after we met, with no reason or explanation. He just stopped calling, period. I want to defriend you. Ð [What's wrong]? - I need something more than friendship from you. [I need love]. ❋ Mikhail Epstein (2003)

"I defriend people who post [quiz] [results]. [Get a life]!" ❋ Coell (2005)

After he got married, at his [wife's] urging, he defriended all of his exgirlfriends from his facebook [profile]. That guy writes annoying notes in his facebook profile so I defriended him. WTF did he [defriend] me? ❋ Scarpeta (2008)