criticize friend privately or in public which better?

Of course in private it is very embarrassing on the side of your friend if you criticize them upfront, Sometimes it is also good if you criticize to motivate your friend like a positive reinforcement and not the negative reinforcement which only damage a friend reputation causing the ruin of your friendship. If a friend criticize me in public it would surely break my heart and although i do not likely to engage in heated argument in retaliation of her behavior. I would surely not going to talk to her again and would definitely started to distance myself to avoid saying bad words which could either hurt her or me in the process.

one should not criticize one's friend openly and try to sort out the issue with one to one talk .but exceptions can be there where your friend can be completely wrong at something absolutely important like your country or family .where i may try to rectify him/her then and there? becoz then i would prefer proving loyalty to them rather than nurse false pride of my friend .but i will still want to remain his /her friend if its just a one time mistake.

If we need to criticize anyone, friends or not, don't do it in public. We're being disrespect to his/her honour and pride. Find more private place and talk alone if you can. Some people can accept criticism but not if you throw it in public places where people can hear it.

Hi flower21, I dont think friends criticize friends in public. That friend cant be a friend of mine, get what I mean? Friends would, at the most, laughingly suggest - hey that cant be possible, or u are kidding me, or if something was not done right, well, there are different views, in ur shoes I would have done it differently kind of thing. If the person is criticizing me in public, especially without using soft intonation, and couching words making me vulnerable for others to pounce on me, then that person is jealous of me! Dump the person at the earliest.