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Wow thanks for the insightful comments! Some were very philosophical

This is why I have no friends.

[quote=LostMyJob][i]or are they really?[/i]

ohohohoho[/quote]

They're bosom buddies.

[quote=Mixil]they're friends too[/quote]

[i]or are they really?[/i]

ohohohoho

Someone that doesn't judge you, is accepting, helps you when you have problems to the best of their ability, is there for you, loyal, you enjoy doing things with them

[quote=Billionz]I only add people that I actually know on Facebook. So yes, I consider most of my Facebook friends to be friends. [b]or girls that I like.[/b]
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i lol'd

I only add people that I actually know on Facebook. So yes, I consider most of my Facebook friends to be friends. If not, then they're familiar acquaintances, used to be friends, or girls that I like.

Good friends:
-willing to adapt to each other's interests
-faithful/loyal
-straightforward
-helpful, or at least makes an effort to try to be there for you whenever you need help
-emotional support

Most 'just friends' that will mostly likely stay 'just friends':
-willing to accept each other's interests at least
-positive
-when you need their help, they'll be there for you at times
-generally not very straightforward
-they may have too many 'good friends'
-might not that chill nor cool-tempered

Someone whom you'd want to make it big with you.

inb4 Drake

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSrTnWDTdwI]definition of a friend[/url]

people that i hope to find in the future.

I don't think I can provide a comprehensive, cover-all definition, but these are some traits shared by my closest friends:

Shared interests
Trustworthy
Willingness to help despite considerable inconveniences
Emotional support
Accepting/understanding of personal quirks/weaknesses
Not afraid to voice concerns if said quirks/weaknesses become troublesome

[quote=mitarumetaro]If friendship requires a bilateral bond, I would need some sort of assurance that the other person feels the same way that I do, and I probably can't ever get confirmation of that.[/quote]

My father had an easy answer as to my mother's question of whether or not her first husband loved her - if they say that they love you, and they act like they love you, they love you. I can imagine getting confirmation of a "bilateral bond" thusly.

A friend is someone that you are willing to die for at a moment's notice.

Somebody who doesn't stab me in the back.

if i used all of your guys definition of a friend i can easily narrow my friends list to about 5 people.
#nofriends
#truefriends

Oh goodness. Back on an old account (no doubt it was @Flexography), I made a huge thread about Friendship, and what it actually meant to be 'friends' as opposed to 'not friends'. It wasn't meant to be authoritative. It was just sort of me speaking about my thoughts on the subject, perhaps to better understand them myself.
My thread sort of explained that I had historically thought of friendship as being some sort of like bilateral emotional bond sort of thing, but that that notion has fallen out of favour for me because I was having trouble understanding how we could ever be sure we were friends with people if that was the case. If friendship requires a bilateral bond, I would need some sort of assurance that the other person feels the same way that I do, and I probably can't ever get confirmation of that. I had thought a bit about maybe my expectations being sufficient, such that being friends with someone just required that I have a certain emotional bond with them, and believe that they reciprocate those feelings. However, I had issues with that, because it would seem like, if we were ever to find out that our feelings were not truly being reciprocated, we would want to say something like "we were never really friends" or "they were never a real fried" or "they were a fake friend" or something like that, in which case it would seem clear that our expectation is not sufficient.
In my thread, I took this as motivation for suggestion that friendship is some sort of structural relationship with people. Our social relationships tend to be defined by "power relationships". I proposed a specific sort of structure which might capture what we are talking about when we talk about friendship, and I thought that this could solve the problems I had raised above.
I'm not sure if the thread ended here, or if I considered in it that it seems possible to have structurally identical relationships with two different people, yet to only consider one of them a friend. If this is true, then my picture is still missing something essential.

I'm still pretty confused about it, though I've become a lot more convinced that it has to be rooted in emotional stuff.

A friend is someone who's been through hell with me and back.

We can't talk only in-school, and only about school. We have to hang outside of school, too and share common interests that is non-school related.

A friend is someone who I can count on, the person I share my problems to and listens. Loyal. And the person who is here no matter what.

A friend is someone I'm friendly with. A good friend is someone I talk to often. An acquaintance is someone I know, but don't really talk to.

[quote=pinoymystic]l0l frick no. fb friends are like nothing. idk why people try so hard to get like 500+ people.

friends are people who don't care who you are, but are willing to be there for you.[/quote]

baby i got ur back

l0l frick no. fb friends are like nothing. idk why people try so hard to get like 500+ people.

friends are people who don't care who you are, but are willing to be there for you.

A friend is one of the homies

I don't consider FB friends, "friends". A friend is someone you can trust.