In other words, they are defining "friend" simply as any Facebook member who communicates a wish to be one.
Ten years were to pass before his next collection, The Man With Night Sweats (1992): here, with terrible irony, the poet who had sought to lose "the self" found himself "less defined" and "unsupported" as his self-defining friends died of Aids.
But such passages are wedged between pages and pages of tedious and repetitious exchanges between poorly defined friends from Dai Wei's past.
There are lots of ways to define friends – that's how you can have 5,000.
Are you happy with the way you define friends vs. fans, followers vs. followees?
From now on, users will be able to define "friends" overtly, and configure who can see their shared items and hide the ones you don't want to see in Reader.
"The culture of the stiff upper lip may mean people are answering somewhat differently … than they do in America," he says, adding that Britons and Americans may define friends differently, too.
I ask him to define "friend".
How partners define "friend" is a bit different for each individual.
I have long defined "friend-ship" as a vessel in which two or more souls journey toward a common destination -- the realization of our oneness in God.
Polls indicate that, as opposed to previous generations, millennials see travel as a major part of the American dream, as well as self-employment, and defining close friends as part of their family.
