I agree. Now change the tile of this article to, "A distant friend died two years ago and I didn't know about it." And no one clicks.

There's emotional distance and there's physical distance. I have been very close to people who are now very far from me. The fact that we don't get to speak often these days says nothing about the quality of the bond. Still very sad...

I don't see the point of this. Isn't distant friend a subset of "friend" as a group? This seems unnecessarily cynical about the title of this post.

BOOL: type specifier incorrect