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[silver_sparrow]

I don't have any close friends in real life do to how much I move around. I wouldn't really go out of my way to help anyone in particular but for example if I had a close friend who needed money and I had the means I guess I wouldn't mind helping them out.

Modifié par silver_sparrow, 28 novembre 2011 - 11:56 .

[Dominus]

A difficulty with the internet is we can pass off the term friend as just someone you vagely know with a few slight interests. I try to look at internet friends the same way I would look at a real life friend.

Let's check the official definition:

friend [frend]

1. somebody emotionally close: somebody who trusts and is fond of another
2. acquaintance: somebody who thinks well of or is on good terms with somebody else
3. ally: an ally, or somebody who is not an enemy

although #2 certainly leads into a friend in my personal view, #1 is more of a key factor, with #3 applying as well. You have to be able to trust them word to a certain degree. If you can't have that, it's time to reconsider the relationship entirely. I should be able to talk to them about relatively personal issues without them playing coy, or outright ignoring me. Someone I trust told me a very insightful piece of information: Finding a loyal, trustworthy friend is a one in a million event, and should not be tossed aside.

A friend is there for you when the proverbial crap hits the fan.
A friend knows how to cheer you up.
A friend defends against those who wish to harm another friend.
A true friend is a rare person, indeed.

[ObserverStatus]

Eminem wrote...

What are friends?
Friends are people that you think are your friends
But they really your enemies, with secret indentities
and disguises, to hide they true colors
So just when you think you close enough to be brothers
they wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin
What is money?
Money is what makes a man act funny
Money is the root of all evil
Money'll make them same friends come back around
swearing that they was always down

[Warheadz]

bobobo878 wrote...

Eminem wrote...

What are friends?
Friends are people that you think are your friends
But they really your enemies, with secret indentities
and disguises, to hide they true colors
So just when you think you close enough to be brothers
they wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin
What is money?
Money is what makes a man act funny
Money is the root of all evil
Money'll make them same friends come back around
swearing that they was always down

True dat, yo, homie-boy.

No but seriously, I love those lyrics xD

[KenKenpachi]

Maybe I'll go into more detail later, but its as Dominus says, I only consider two people I've know online, among ranks one and three. Most are of two and I trust to lesser extents. And with me its not so much emotional as it is comradier. I value a person that I know when the **** hits the fan they'll be right there for me, as I would for them, even at personal risk. Few are that dependable.

And true friends on a personal level are even more rare. I've had three and only three I would consider that. I've had lesser friends, and those who where friends only in name, but all three are lost to me, not as we part ways but as our families moved, or such. At times I wonder if they would even remember me, much less if I could even contact them.

[Arcadian Legend]

DominusVita wrote...

A difficulty with the internet is we can pass off the term friend as just someone you vagely know with a few slight interests. I try to look at internet friends the same way I would look at a real life friend.

Let's check the official definition:

friend [frend]

1. somebody emotionally close: somebody who trusts and is fond of another
2. acquaintance: somebody who thinks well of or is on good terms with somebody else
3. ally: an ally, or somebody who is not an enemy

although #2 certainly leads into a friend in my personal view, #1 is more of a key factor, with #3 applying as well. You have to be able to trust them word to a certain degree. If you can't have that, it's time to reconsider the relationship entirely. I should be able to talk to them about relatively personal issues without them playing coy, or outright ignoring me. Someone I trust told me a very insightful piece of information: Finding a loyal, trustworthy friend is a one in a million event, and should not be tossed aside.

A friend is there for you when the proverbial crap hits the fan.
A friend knows how to cheer you up.
A friend defends against those who wish to harm another friend.
A true friend is a rare person, indeed.

Pretty much this, though if someone I know here is getting ragged on by a troll or an agressive member, I'd gladly defend them, providing I'm there when I see it of course.

[Aaleel]

I have maybe 5 people I consider friends. They're people I've known most of my life, I know their families, they're as close to me a members of my family. I've spent holidays with their families, they've spent holidays with mine.

They don't just tell me what I want to hear all the time, if I'm doing something wrong they'll tell me I'm messing up, and I do the same for them.

They're people that if my life depended on it and I could only call one person to help me out, I know I could call them and they'd be there.

Modifié par Aaleel, 28 novembre 2011 - 02:52 .

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

A friend to all is the friend to none, therefore you might lose friends when there is a conflict and you side with your other friends, or you become a "Yes all are right" person.
So, one must choose his friends carefully and after examinations.

[chunkyman]

"Friends"? What the weakness are those?

[Arcadian Legend]

^ ufunny.

[fightright2]

I don't like using the word 'friend' as it is taken so lightly these days and is overused and tossed around so casually that it has been depreciated time and time again, especially with the existence of the Internet. It even irks me to say 'friends list'.

I personally believe that the use of that has slowly degraded the deep valued meaning to something more shallow and disposable since nowadays many merely race to collect 'friends' as a popularity contest or use the quantity of it to define their own self-worth and value.

Because I define a friend as someone that I love dearly to the point that I am willing to die for...I am mindful in calling someone my friend.

"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends".

If a person does not fit that definition then I prefer to use the term 'acquaintance' as I am not intimate with that person, even though I may find them more amiable and affable to me, more so than others, that I like to associate with them and prefer them enough to add them to my 'social list'.

To me, the saying that "a true friend is a rare indeed" is simply and actually...a friend is rare indeed.

[Skypezee]

Most "friends" tend to just end up being acquaintances. I consider a friend/best friend as someone whom I can really rely on to be there when I need them. Friends are willing to do anything for those they care about and will be there for them when needed. It's not a matter of just hanging out with them and staying in touch; a friend is someone who is really dependable and you can consider them as being like family. In all honesty, I only consider an extremely few number of people as being friends. Not one of them I would consider as being "best friends" though.

I basically don't take friendships very lightly.

Modifié par Skypezee, 28 novembre 2011 - 03:59 .

[GMagnum]

a true friend is yo homie who ride w/ u 4 lyfe ride or die tbh
sum1 fkin w/ u? yo homie will roll w/ u an bust shot no qustion ask he wunt say "wut he do" he wunt say "nah im 2 blaze 2 get muh gat git sum1 else" he gon be lyke "where he at hol up leme gt my piece" yo gurl kik u out u cn go to ur homie house n crsh at his plce till ur gurl calm da fk down dat tru homie tbh

[mousestalker]

When my life melted down quite a while ago (before BSN was even a gleam in Greg and Ray's eyes) several people stood by me and offered help and comfort. They are my friends. They were there when it really mattered.

People I have encountered on the Internet are by and large acquaintances regardless of what the social software calls them.