Poll: Do you have any friends in real life?

[therookie95]

I got a bunch of friends though i lost my facebook when for unforseen reasons i got a note on my door that said "No, we do not join a group on facebook that has 'im gonna f*** you with a rake!' in its name!" (barely used it anyway)
but my good friends all have xboxes and my friend who's a girl has one, but we talk mostly through phone

 

[Sneaky llama]

Yeah but Sisko when are you ever outside for me to ask??

i have a small group of friends i'd trust with anything! trust is very important to me, and i generally go on a yearly purge of those who arent really my friends... lol but i dont need a large group of friends, 1 of mine is worth 2 of one of the other idiots at my school

I can vouch for this personally. I have a smaller group of friends, but they're the close kind of people that I'll be keeping in contact with long after high school's over and all the other jerks go off to fuck up their lives.

i tnhoughtn ourb grboup wcevrbev ymadev of tnhev saymev ppl.... lmao

Umm... What?

Dammit i'll need to ask ghostknifefish for help on how to use these damn things

Or me, I have been here a year.

[sub]David.[/sub]

 

[Captain Pancake]

Yeah but Sisko when are you ever outside for me to ask??

i have a small group of friends i'd trust with anything! trust is very important to me, and i generally go on a yearly purge of those who arent really my friends... lol but i dont need a large group of friends, 1 of mine is worth 2 of one of the other idiots at my school

I can vouch for this personally. I have a smaller group of friends, but they're the close kind of people that I'll be keeping in contact with long after high school's over and all the other jerks go off to fuck up their lives.

i tnhoughtn ourb grboup wcevrbev ymadev of tnhev saymev ppl.... lmao

Umm... What?

Dammit i'll need to ask ghostknifefish for help on how to use these damn things

Or me, I have been here a year.

[sub]David.[/sub]

I could just message you on this. And it's the big quote button under a post, as you've probably realised.

 

[Sneaky llama]

yeah when i press the big quote button some jibberish comes up in the box but i don't know how to make it so that my writing is in a separate box

 

[Sneaky llama]

is it working now?

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I have a very very small group of people I would call friends, but my definition of friend is about as high as what other people might call 'close friend' or 'best friend' so this group has about three people in it.

Apart from that I have a rather wide range of people I would call 'acquantainces' and others would just call 'friends'.

The reason for the linguistic nightmare up there is that I don't keep in regular contact with most of the 'acquantainces', seeing tham at most once a week and sometimes not for several months (nearly half a year with one group) whereas 'friends' are people I try and stay in touch with every day, or see them whenever I have the chance.

 

[Ildecia]

i have around 6 good friends, and the rest are like part-time acquaintances

it works i guess.

if facebook count is the "official" then its like 300+

 

[joshthor]

i have about 9 close friends - about 3 different groups, and a lot of other friends (people i hang out with...not just acquaintances or facebook friends)

 

[JasonKaotic]

A shocking 10% with no friends O.O

I have very, very few friends, but they're all I need. Most of them I hardly ever see.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

I believe everyone has friends in real life, if you don't, you've shut yourself off from the world and it's your fault, anyone can make friends.

and yes, I have friends, in fact I have a graduation party that Im going to in a few hours.

Wow, now that's audacious.

I have asperger's syndrome, and just about every quirk of a social atmosphere has to be learned, step by step, before I come any closer to interacting with people. All those things that come naturally to someone when talking with friends isn't there for people like us. Heck, I'm lucky; I have the more low-functioning kind. I had to work to get the few friends I do have, and most other people seem to make it a point of ignoring me. I have tried every trick in the book to meet new people, and specifically avoided "shutting myself away" as much as possible. Yet, after all that I have very little in terms of actual interaction to show for it. I have a cell phone that receives about 4 incoming calls a year, I've tried inviting people out to lunch numerous times and never had the favor returned, and at times have felt lonely to the point of contemplating suicide.




There, I'm done. You, sir, are full of BS; don't ever make assumptions about everyone else's lives again.

That was a dick move on my part, I totally forgot about people with conditions like yours. I have a friend with Aspergers and I know the struggles she goes through and I imagine you have the same problems that she does.

Sorry =(, no hard feelings?

 

[The3rdEye]

I don't consider people I only socialize with over the 'net to be actual people. (Mind you I still treat them with respect and dignity, unless they fall directly under point #2) My reasons being;

1) There's no risk to interacting with other users (aside from your pride), no risk no gain
2) As a consequence of #1, everyone is full of shit
3) If it's not in front of me and it's not some matter of real importance, it doesn't exist. (Global conflicts are real, forum users disappear when I leave the site)

 

[Jark212]

All my friends and my still BFF are in California, but I moved to Colorado 2 years ago and made no real friends...

 

[kidragakash]

I have them... but most of the time don't want them...

I have that genetic anomaly where people seem to be drawn to me, when i want to be alone the most...

like when dogs will go up to the one person in the room who doens't like them, and tail them for the remainder of their occupancy...

 

[The Eggplant]

I've become quite a social type over the last two years or so, but I'm extremely guarded...behind the initial facade of charm is a fairly caustic sheath, and only a very few people have ever managed to get underneath that and find little ol' insecure me lurking somewhere underneath.

But yes, I have a great number of people who consider themselves my friends and a handful who I also view as such.

 

[Sovvolf]

I have a tons of people I call friends... however I only have three true friends... one of them being my Cousin.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

What cos we sepend time on the internet we can't have RL friends?

Why not? I have a few RL friends, but overall I don't really like hanging out with people. My boyfriend is pretty much all I need.

 

[proctorninja2]

yes although only a group of about 5 i would call my actual friends, other people mostly just know me and i dont know them or they know me by my nickname (for anyone who cares) Hawaiian Thunder
ps im not hawaiian

 

[Cowabungaa]

Nope, not a single one.

The friends I do have simply live too far away from me. And it goddamn sucks. I'm lonely as fuck and can't share the things I care about with anyone around me. I don't want a big group of friends, just a couple of close ones I can hang out with. But I don't even have that.

I guess it doesn't help either that I have issues with making friends. All the friends I did have in the past I left behind again within a year tops, often less. That's what you get when you have to leave school all the time.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

i have a couple of (GOOD) friends who i know since primary school ... i don't need hundreds of "friends" who i all hardly spent time with

 

[Turbulenssi]

Couple of close friends but we live in different cities so we rarely see each other.