- sunday life: so, defriending is word of the year, but does it make life read better? So on Thursday I was stood up by a friend. Her excuse was as flimsy as a philanderer’s promise and it was her third last-minute no-show. Sitting at the restaurant fuming into a ramekin of bar olives I wondered if it wasn’t time to defriend. It’s a concept many of you relate to. I know more