How do you handle having too many friends?

May 23, 2012 9:03am CST
I see a lot of people having many friends both in offline or online world. I am not against it but just wondering how they are handling having too many friends? To have more friends means you need to give more time to talk to them, give them updates about your life at least on a regular basis. For me without communication friendship cannot be considered strong. I have many friends but I only have few close friends coz I think it's hard to have many and treat them all in the same way.
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• Sri Lanka
23 May 12
you can handle lot friends easily .....I mean when it comes to online ,fb is a great way to give updates ...you don't need to update all of em daily.....just talk to them when you have time ...all of em are not your best friends are they?
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• United States
23 May 12
you could just have conversations with each one of them so you keep your friendship with them all!
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
24 May 12
I have many friends, different sets of friends- different ages and levels of mindsetting. And I don't owe them any obligation to update about my life status or what I am doing everyday. Friends will always understand and real friends are those who never leaves. It's easy to maintain friends when you have same vibes.
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@lampar (7584)
• United States
23 May 12
Peope who have many online friends are in for their friend's collection hobby, they usually don't care about how to handle all these many online friends, except just let's them lay there in her friend's list until she is no more a member of that website. Majority of the time the friend's collector will not bother to spend time thinking on how to treat all these friends she has collected in the list over the year, except use them whenever is necessary like for example when it is time for some sales pitch, or refferal links that can bring benefit to her money making online adventure. The question on how to handle all these online friends probably never surface inside a friend's collector mind, so no solution is needed.
• Philippines
23 May 12
hi there. well it's okay having lots of friends. you may or may not consider them all as your close friends and most of them won't demand much time from you specially on your busy hours. it's all up to you if you put too much effort for them to get updated with your life. most friends we get to know on the outside world will simply be there whenever you want to chill out or hangout with them during your spare time.. some group of friends we consider TRUE, will always be there when you're in need. one thing you must understand is, there are different types of friends that you consider.
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@ryanong (9665)
• Vietnam
24 May 12
No, it is not difficult at all. To keep in touch with friends is not difficult i think. I have closed friends, we don't need to talk everyday but we are so happy whenever we have a chance to talk, to meet and sharing with each other. Whenever we need a help, just directly ask them a help...with a normal friends, i also don't need to chat with them everyday, just sometime asking each other..
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@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
23 May 12
Well i am not against having a large friend circle but i feel that a person should befriend those number of people that he can manage and spare time. A person should not enlarge his friend circle just for show off or become popular among the people. This is because nowadays its very important to keep track of each friend and to be aware of their haves and have nots. So i feel that it is very difficult to handle too many friends and should have a friend circle that he can handle..
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@ajithlal (14716)
• India
23 May 12
I think it is possible to handle lots of friends in life. I think it is great to have lots of friends in life. I think we must not need to thing about tomorrow or what we speak to our friends or how we handle them. I think one of the best way to handle the friends is to just handle them according to the present situation. I think we should try to leave in the present and decorate the memories and also try to think positive about the future. I think friends are some people always makes us happy in our lives.
@Bebs08 (10681)
• United States
23 May 12
Well I have many friends too.. I have hundreds specially in Facebook but I did not communicate all of them in a regular basis except to my close friends. Yes, we can have hundreds and millions of friends but there are always very few that we can communicate regularly.
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@sreekutty (1051)
• India
23 May 12
Your observations are very true indeed. I too have many online 'friends' but i am close only with a few people. I like to keep my space short so that I can concentrate more.
• Philippines
23 May 12
Hello jobfindonline, I guess it depends on your definition of friendship. I believe we are all entitled to have one so that is one basis of it. There are people who have a lot of friends and although they cannot update each and everyone of them about the things that are happening on a regular basis, they still consider them as friends. I have friends whom I have not talked for quite a while but I am confident that when I see them again, it would still be the same friendship that we had before. In my opinion that is where the true essence of friendship can be measured. I have online friends the same way that I have friends outside the world wide web, and I must say that they are pretty big in numbers. I am not expecting that I could communicate with each and everyone of them regularly but if I have chance then I would gladly catch up with them.
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• United States
23 May 12
I am like you i have a lot of friends but, only a few close friends.
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