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> There are plenty of people I see every day that I would consider, at best, an acquaintance.

Ditto, where did I say seeing someone every day made them a friend? If it's this "it's the people you hang out with and see on a regular basis" that wasn't meant to qualify everyone you see daily as a friend.

> There is also a very small group of people that I see maybe once or twice a year that I would consider friends.

But you see them, which is my point. If your only contact with them is on Facebook, and losing Facebook would end your contact with them; they aren't your friends.

> Your definition of friendship is outrageously shallow and is contrary to any other definition I have heard.

I don't think you've understand what I'm saying well enough to say what my definition is since you've gotten it so clearly wrong.




I'm sorry but you're moving the goal posts here.

>Friend isn't a permanent status, it's the people you hang out with and see on a regular basis.

In my post where I say "maybe once or twice a year" I am saying precisely that I do NOT see them on a regular basis.

It is not that I don't understand what you're saying, it is that you're not saying what you mean correctly.


Which I've already clarified as well as described several different ways, you're just being pedantic.




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