friends smile 

A term dubbed by the Twitch.tv Duo, CallMeCarson and Katerino, "friends smile" or "friends :)" simply means friends but different.
The whole point of the term is to blue ball the Twitch.tv audience from the official title of dating.

We started off as just friends— and now we're just friends smile, which is different.

friends smile by define everything February 20, 2020

Wanting To See A Friend Smile 

May possibly involve playing a little prank on a friend in hopes of seeing them crack a smile during a diffucult day.

Creating a screen name and pretending to be the cute neighbor next door and asking your friend out on a date.

But it's not the cute neighbor.
It's you.
Because you're wanting to see a friend smile.

She should learn how to take a joke.
<3

Wanting To See A Friend Smile by ANONYMOUS.124 March 1, 2009

Silent Friend 

Well, this is a term I came up with meaning if someone joins your MySpace page or whatever social network you use and they just join and not say anything at all to you but yet they want to be your friend.
Makes no kind of sense!

You get a in this case, a MySpace friend request and you add that person and they don't say anything to you at all. That's a Silent Friend.

Silent Friend by jeremyrennerfan April 3, 2009