I think a "buddy" is a way of "friending" someone here on the forum... I don't use Facebook but have subscribed to one other forum in the past which utilized "friends". I'm not sure, though, what features might be available once people have mutually added each other to their buddy lists on this forum. If you click the "Open Buddy List" it looks like the window that pops up might contain a clickable list of your buddies if you had some, maybe? The option to add buddies is on the user cp page... Maybe someone with more info will post here at some point? 
(Or maybe you guys already have buddies and just can't figure out the "open buddy list" part? If so, just ignore my rambling! )
(Or maybe you guys already have buddies and just can't figure out the "open buddy list" part? If so, just ignore my rambling!
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