2006 — Louisa Ellen Stein, "'This Dratted Thing': Fannish Storytelling Through New Media", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (eds. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), McFarland & Company (2006), →ISBN, page 252:
The added dimension of hyperlinks leading to images related to the narrative, as well as to other characters' LJs, creates a sense of verisimilitude, providing details that function to emulate the expansiveness of real-life experience. Readers who have Harry and Draco on their friendslist can also watch as their conversations (or, as is often the case, arguments) unfold in the comments after each post, […]
MySpace is essentially refusing an opportunity to detect and imprison active repeat offenders, by moving the entire superset of ex-offenders into the shadows. Does the convicted pedophile have lots of teenagers on his friendslist?
2010 — Markus Huber, Martin Mulazzani, & Edgar Weippl, "Who on Earth is 'Mr. Cypher': Automated Friend Injection Attacks", in Security and Privacy - Silver Linings in the Cloud (eds. Kai Rannenberg, Vijay Varadharajan, & Christian Weber), Springer (2010), →ISBN, page 85:
Facebook does not offer a list of pending friend requests to its users. The only way to search for pending friends requests is offered through the friendslist whereas injected friends would have been marked with a "pending friend request" status.
After we stopped seeing eachother for a while she was the one contacting me again and she didn't leave my friendslist ever since.
2011 — Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
According to DeGrippo, LiveJournal became such fertile ground for drama because it was particularly open, making it easy for noobs to spew their dysfunction into the world. It provided an early example of the "follow" function called "friendslist," which created a chronological feed for users to browse their favorite LJ personalities.
