I have a lot of people around me but I don't consider them my friends.
Don't get me wrong, some of them are rather close to me emotionally and psychologically. I have given them a lot and received even more from them but I would never consider them friends. Even the people I know for long time and for what they did to me and what I did to them they might consider me "best friend".
A lot to unpack here but I have actually made many new friends in the past 4 years, it was my brothers friend group. One of the limiting factors, I would say, is how many people can you actually REALLY care about?
My best friend is, you could say, popular. He has many "friends" but most I don't think he really cares about. I can't imagine having family, a wife, kids, old time proven friends and still want to go out and spend the time to really get to know more people.
I've noticed a lot of normalfags label acquaintances as friends ever since kikebook and other such platforms became a thing.
Faceberg "friends" are more drinking buddies than anything. Also, many people don't realize how easy it is to spy on them because of the 'coolness' factor of getting new (((friends))).
Of course you can also weaponize FB against them. When I used it I used to often use a VPN to take "trips" to places that would gauge their interests (but this was long after I had come here and realized the degenerate nature of social networking).
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I'd rather have resentments than friends, resentments keep me warm at night, friends do not.