> Perhaps you and I have different definitions of the word "friend", then.
I think the problem has nothing to do with the word "friend" but the word "prejudice".
> I'm talking about the pre-Facebook version, where they were earned.
So what? The fact that people in group X can earn any given position with you doesn't mean that they don't, just by the fact of being members of group X, start out in a worse position in your view. So, that people in group X may have earned the designation "friend" from you does not in any way prove that you don't have a prejudice, even potentially a very strong one, against group X.
I think the problem has nothing to do with the word "friend" but the word "prejudice".
> I'm talking about the pre-Facebook version, where they were earned.
So what? The fact that people in group X can earn any given position with you doesn't mean that they don't, just by the fact of being members of group X, start out in a worse position in your view. So, that people in group X may have earned the designation "friend" from you does not in any way prove that you don't have a prejudice, even potentially a very strong one, against group X.