Typically a 'friend' within a website or online setting exclusively; which ironically don't allow for the depth of interaction, rapport and social connection that friends of a conventional nature share.
Her friends offered to drive her to her doctor's appointment; while her e-quaintance's weren't even aware she was ill.
by B M Crowe January 16, 2007
a person whom one knows but who is not a particularly close friend nor have they ever met and ony communicate via the internet.
by megagina August 28, 2009