Is a Buddy now called a Contact in 3.8?

[feldon23]

Buddies were renamed Contacts. It's just a list of users you like.

However Friends is part of the Social Networking and it's someone you are following, and your name appears under their name. So I would leave it up to your users to decide if they want to use the Friend system.

[Homeworld'sa]

Yes, buddy lists were renamed to friend lists.
I wouldn't recommend doing so, because some people may want to have a contact with someone but not their friend.

[Ludachris]

Is there a query we can run to update all users so that their contacts (buddies) are automatically added as friends?

[Ludachris]

I see no "edit buddy list" link in usercp. Is the buddy list done away with and now called contacts?

Can someone give me an overview on the new system? The vb manual still references buddy list as if it's the same as before.