It depends a lot on context and usage. Generally I mean the subset of people I feel I've come to "know" and care about - and that could be for all sorts of reasons. I may have friended them because of fandom but am now more interested in their actual lives. I may have friended them because I saw their posts everywhere and we clearly had so many people/interests in common it was silly not to. They may have friended me, similarly, and we found we had more in common than we expected. Or they may be RL friends who know about my LJ, which is decidedly a subset of the whole.
Yeah, for me it definitely depends on context. When I flock something, clearly the friendlist to which I've flocked consists of people whom I've friended. But when I address a general "Halp!" sort of question 'to the flist,' I'm talking about whoever's reading the post.
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-10 01:22 am (UTC)Very complicated. *nods*