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.
A person to whom one has at one point sent a successful social networkingfriends request or from whom one has accepted such request.
1: I really need to clean up my facebook friends list, my news feed is painful to scroll through: It's full of so many strangers' bullshit.
2: 'Yeah, gotta' love those almost-quaintances'!
A person you have befriended via electronic communications, most commonly email but can include MMORPGs, MPOGs, Web Blogs, mail lists or Instant Message systems.
I got this cool link from an e.quaintence I know from Fark.com