friending

It is possible to follow another user's post without the mutual friending required by other social networks.

Human nature is to reciprocate a friending, marking someone as a friend who has marked oneself as a friend.

His friending of Stuart to get the scoop on his date with Amy was surprising but brilliant".

Beyond Friending: BuddyPress and the Social, Networked, Open-Source Classroom.

Lindsay Pulsipher portrayed Kim Rollins, Detective Amanda Rollins' (Kelli Giddish) troubled sister in the episode "Friending Emily".

Set a Friending Policy A "Friending Policy" is the criteria by which you determine who you will accept friend requests from to include in your social network.

As Gold (2011) writes in "Beyond Friending: BuddyPress and the Social, Networked, Open-Source Classroom" that students are often reluctant to mix social networks with academic networks.

Matt Jones, of Dopplr, went so far as to coin the expression "friending considered harmful" to describe the problem of focussing upon the friending of more and more people at the expense of actually making any use of a social network.

On 15 June 2010 in Canada (10 June in the US) MacArthur launched her first book, Power Friending: Demystifying Social Media to Grow Your Business, to great success and it quickly made it onto the Globe & Mail Bestsellers Top 10 list.

It prohibited judges from friending any attorneys that appeared before them, whilst allowing friending of those who do not, on the grounds that it may give the appearance to the general public (even if the substance is otherwise) that those attorneys who are friended hold special sway with the judge.