v.
To remove a person from one's list of friends on a social networking site. Also: de-friend, unfriend.
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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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