What is the definition of "friend"? I get plenty aggrevated when people join those cliques online just so they can gang up on lonesome individuals. It bugs me that someone I know claims to make a new friend online everyday. It bugged me again when she thought I was flirting with her husband, whom I did not even know was male, and made it her mission to group with as many people as she possibly could to make me miserable.
I don't know.....perhaps I am old fashioned, but everytime someone tells me that he/she has more than five close friends, I think they are bluffing. I think people who manifest an outwardly suave and debonair appearance are using the appearance to undermine their pathetic attempts at achieving normalcy.
Disclaimer: I am never aggrevated by anyone on this forum. You people are the nicest bunch of people I have ever known. You guys are awesome.
Myself personally has a very poor social life, but then I am a grad student. It is to be expected. Some people even wear it as a badge of honor.
As far as acquanitances, I have dozens that I am regularly friendly with. However, when it comes to life and death situations, I can only count on five individuals, all of them being family.