Is there anything wrong with not having a huge group of friends ? What do you think ?
Sometimes I feel like mainstream media and society tries to make us feel that if you don’t have a big gang of friends like say in Sex and the City then you are lame or boring.
I have a couple friends outside my fiance and I am happy with that.
Is there something wrong with this ?
I guess sometimes I feel weird when i see my friends that have 100 to 400 friends on facebook and I wonder.
Is it really possible to have so many friends or are they just acquaintances?
I find it difficult to keep in touch regularly with the few friends I have and to be honest I don’t really want a lot of friends.
How can you possibly maintain true deep meaningful friendships with more than a handful of people in your life at a time?
For those of you out there that can claim that you have a lot of friends are these actually true friends or more acquaintances,
people that you know very superficially.
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I don’t think you’re getting the message that most popular media want you to get. They’re going to feel that they failed in your case.
They want you to feel inferior and lame regardless of the number of friends you have or any other accomplishments in your life.
You should keep going the way you’re going. And maybe limiting your exposure to the more insistent and damaging media out there.
Nope, there is nothing wrong with it at all. Different strokes for different folks.
Not at all. I only have a handful of friends, and a whole bunch of acquaintances. I do have a lot of Facebook friends, but most of them are relatives, classmates, former coworkers, stuff like that.
The few people with whom you can maintain those deep, meaningful friendships over time are the ones that matter, anyway. Don’t worry about it.
Nothing wrong with it at all! My husband has two people other than me who he considers good friends. In my case, I would say that I have about 7 or 8 people who I consider to be very good friends, one of whom is my sister.
And those Facebook friends may be people who they have picked up along the way while playing games. I have over 300 “friends” on my list, but many of those are from getting involved in vampire wars and castle age.
If you have a few very good friends and are happy, you are in great shape. I personally think it would be lonely to have no intimate friends but the quality is much more significant than the quantity. And Facebook friends generally don’t mean shit.
I can count my truly close friends on one hand, but I have a lot of acquaintances. I am active in local community theater, so I know a lot of people that way. I wouldn’t necessarily call them friends though.
I don’t think it’s unusual for you at all to have few friends.
Most people have a few real friends and a lot of acquaintances. If you read up on social networks, some people are “connectors,” or people for whatever reason have a lot of contacts to different groups of people. It’s not that they have friends, but they are known, and know, a lot of different types of people and are just social and outgoing.
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