n.
On a social networking site, a person whose friend request you accept out of pity.
—pity-friend v.
—pity-friend v.
Example Citations:
Consider paring down your Facebook friends to ensure that personalized search results are as relevant as possible. (No more pity friend accepts!)
—Laurel Miltner, "Picks of the Week: May 16-22," PR 20/20 May 24, 2011
—Laurel Miltner, "Picks of the Week: May 16-22," PR 20/20 May 24, 2011
Do you hate Facebook's new design? Do you find the home page too noisy, with important updates from your friends getting buried under a stream of banal comments from high-school classmates and other people you pity-friended?
—Farhad Manjoo, "Stop Whining About Facebook's Redesign," Slate, March 23, 2009
—Farhad Manjoo, "Stop Whining About Facebook's Redesign," Slate, March 23, 2009
Earliest Citation:
two weeks later, i now have two friends on facebook (the other one is scott, who made me a pity friend).
—Henri Jacques Suermondt, "social," Suermondt.com, August 7, 2006
—Henri Jacques Suermondt, "social," Suermondt.com, August 7, 2006
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Related Words:
defriend
fakester
framily
friend
friendsourcing
frienemy
narb
six degrees patent
social media
social networking
social notworking
fakester
framily
friend
friendsourcing
frienemy
narb
six degrees patent
social media
social networking
social notworking
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