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01 Jan 2017, 9:26 pm

BirdInFlight wrote:
I'd rather have one or two very close friends and pretty much no acquaintances. Because quality and depth is far, far better than quantity of a shallow nature.

And also because these randomly bumped into acquaintances kind of force social interaction when I least need or expect it, whereas if you only have a couple of people you are real friends with, all interaction with them is usually arranged and desired, rather than an accident when you just want to be left alone.


This and everything else you've said is exactly how I feel about friends vs acquaintances. I don't want to be waylaid by people I barely know everywhere I go at random intervals when I'm not prepared for it.



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01 Jan 2017, 11:16 pm

over the past year I have realized that my friends are not gonna be there when I need them the only friends I have are my 3 horses and 1 dog it feels tough so bad all I want is a real friend to talk to but I guess real friends don't exist. :cry:



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03 Jan 2017, 2:48 am

Much prefer acquaintances to close friends. Saying hi to people is more than enough day to day scoial contact. I do however have one close friend. We don't talk daily but shes always there for me to infodump when about my special interests :D



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03 Jan 2017, 5:20 am

I have only one close friend, really. Everyone else I know is a mere acquaintance. But I'm okay with that.


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03 Jan 2017, 1:45 pm

I'd also rather have acquaintances than close friends these days. I like my privacy, and I find that I am satisfied socially by my interactions with people at work. It is nice to have lunch occasionally with one of my work friends. I don't really need deep or personal conversations, just "how's work; how's the weather?" is fine with me.

On the other hand, when I was younger I had a few close friends that I was around almost all the time.



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04 Jan 2017, 4:57 pm

I'd say a bit of both. A couple close friends but mostly acquaintances, but not many.



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04 Jan 2017, 7:20 pm

I would say that the almost all of the people I've came across in my life have turned out to be acquaintances as, there is been an extremely small number of people whom were true & honorable friends, though lost contact with them etc. I'm not someone whom would go out of my way to track someone down to reestablish contact through Facebook or some other honorable means of such. The way I see it is, that I'd rather leave people to conduct their lives without any burdens, hindrances, problems, etc.


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