We live in a world where every 15 year old girl has 3000 "friends" across various social networks.
This has always bothered me. It's half the reason I don't use any form of social networking apart from Facebook and even then I have about 10 people on my friends list and I post something maybe once a month.
For some time now I've defined "friend" as "someone you'd call to come bail you out of jail". That is the line for me. Everyone else is just an acquaintance or something.
In my life I have 3 of these people. My ex who I'm very good friends with, a guy twice my age who was my first boss 10 years ago and who introduced me to good movies, books, and music, and then there's an old poker buddy who lives 1000 miles away.
I often wonder why other people are able to make so many friends when I can only manage the 3 (this is not a pity thread, my problems are my own doing and I'm fully aware of it).
How do you define it? Can you count your friends?
This has always bothered me. It's half the reason I don't use any form of social networking apart from Facebook and even then I have about 10 people on my friends list and I post something maybe once a month.
For some time now I've defined "friend" as "someone you'd call to come bail you out of jail". That is the line for me. Everyone else is just an acquaintance or something.
In my life I have 3 of these people. My ex who I'm very good friends with, a guy twice my age who was my first boss 10 years ago and who introduced me to good movies, books, and music, and then there's an old poker buddy who lives 1000 miles away.
I often wonder why other people are able to make so many friends when I can only manage the 3 (this is not a pity thread, my problems are my own doing and I'm fully aware of it).
How do you define it? Can you count your friends?