Unfriend vs Unfollow - What's the difference?
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One who is not a friend; an enemy.
* 1822 , Scott, Nigel :
* 1916 , William Edwin Chilton, John Downey Works, Fiscal relation between the United States and the District of Columbia
* 1999 , Kees Waaijman, John Vriend, The mystical space of Carmel :
(rare) To sever as friends.
* 1659 , Thomas Fuller, The Appeal of Injured Innocence
(Internet) To defriend; to remove from one's friends list (eg on a social networking website).
* 2007 , Mia Consalvo, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Internet Research Annual: Volume 4
(transitive, intransitive, Internet) To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity).
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 22, author=Maureen Dowd, title=To Tweet or Not to Tweet, work=New York Times
, passage=With Twitter, it’s as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.}}
As verbs the difference between unfriend and unfollow
is that unfriend is to sever as friends while unfollow is to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity).As a noun unfriend
is one who is not a friend; an enemy.unfriend
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Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Ye have back-friends, my lord, that is, un-friends , or to be plain, enemies.
- Thus many unfriends and some friends of the Capital agree upon the same policy with diverse and contradictory motives
- The unfriend' betrays me, ignores me, denies me, breaks me down; the ' unfriend is against and tries to devour my personhood.
Synonyms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- "I hope, sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us."
- "I asked her why, she said it was because I didn't comment, and I shrugged and said whatever. I didn't unfriend her."
Synonyms
* defriendAntonyms
* friend * befriendunfollow
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Verb
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