Friending and following

The acts of adding someone to a list of "friends" or following them on a social networking service

Friending is the act of adding someone to a list of "friends" on a social networking service. The notion does not necessarily involve the concept of friendship. It is also distinct from the idea of a "fan"—as employed on the WWW sites of businesses, bands, artists, and others—since it is more than a one-way relationship. A "fan" only receives things. A "friend" can communicate back to the person friending. The act of "friending" someone usually grants that person special privileges with respect to oneself. On Facebook, for example, one's "friends" have the privilege of viewing and posting to one's "timeline".

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