1) A friend who can spare a few seconds to text sometimes, but not five minutes. Family and real friends always take priority
2) a screen only friendship
I got a text from my pocket friend but couldn’t answer because I was at dinner with my workfriends.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.