Ranking friends?

Do you rank your friends? Aside from the obvious "best friend" notion. Do you have like a personal "my faves" circle for life or do you just have the one or two friends and the rest you consider acquaintences?

 

The "best friend" term is overrated... unless you really have one BEST FRIEND then you realy don't have a true BEST friend.. just a few people who are awesome friends.

I definitely have a "my faves" like circle... the rest are usually "friends" that don't really matter.

 

I don't think that I have a "best friend". I have a group of hmm... maybe 25 folk who I consider really close friends, and then the rest of them are acquaintances.

 

In the first place, they all are what they are. No use putting a title on such flux.

But practically speaking, as prax would have it, I've got six solid dudes and a wave of change in the rest.

 

That's about how I am. I limit it to 5 though. I also refer to them as the starting line up.

I'm a bad friend, I'm sure.

 

Nobody likes me.

 

Not really. I mean, naturally I have some friends that I am closer to and hang out with more often than others, but that's just the way things roll. I get along with some people better than others.

 

2 really close people. One is actually like a brother, and he's been informally adopted into my family. I would say that I have a couple more, but I haven't seen too much of them recently since I cut back on my drug use. They're still upstanding kids though.

 

I have maybe 3 or 4 I would do anything for and a bunch I consider friends.

I don't know how you get moved from one to the other.

 

magic.

 

It'd be really hard for any one of my second string friends to make the starting line up.

And the guys in try outs? Fuggedda-bout-it

 

when i get a friend i'll probably rank him

 

You can't honestly be as lonely a guy as you come off to be.

 

I agree. Unless you are actively trying to keep people away from you, some of the sharp wit and humour you display on here must attract some real people.

 

nah, i do have friends. i used to have a lot more, but then after college most of them left town. i've always been kind of a loner, largely by choice, and lately i've made absolutely no effort to establish new friendships or maintain the few that still live nearby.

i have very little use for friends; a good woman and a couple acquaintances would be my ideal social list...

 

as mentioned in my other reply, i do avoid real people to an extent... but even more than that, i just have no idea how or where to meet new people, other than through friends that i don't feel like seeing...

 

You should try speed dating.

 

it takes me about a week before i can figure out what to say to a new person, and that's if i like them; i would sit awkwardly and answer all questions with a simple yes or no in such a situation

 

Thats the beauty of speed dating. You can sit there and play mr mysterious answering yes or no to some random beauties questions and then once that bell rings you'll have a full round of perfect questions to ask beautiful laura. and when she answers those you'll have a full round of perfect answers to the perfect questions to give beautiful jessica.

all the while you're still mr.mysterious.

 

I have acquaintances, which'd be 'people I know/people I may not like'
I have friends, which'd be 'people I'd hang out with given the chance or the time./people who're ok in small doses'
I have people I trust, which means 'people who I'd let walk behind me with a loaded gun, even if they're pissed at me/people I adore spending time with'
my mate, which is my 'girlfriend(significant other)/person I trust implicitly and expect to spend time with.'

people don't change categories easily (for example, I have 3 in the 'people I trust' and one in the 'mate'. The mate was 2 years before she went from 'a person I trust' to mate. To get dropped down requires seriously working at being a complete ass to me. I mean you literally have to screw up so bad that it's nearly unforgivable, or you have to actually work at making me hate you, so it's a pretty stable system, and works for me, at least.

besides, to get above friend, you have to deal with me, and while I might be simple, I never claim to be easy to live with.