Pretty much everyone becomes my acquaintance, only a few are my real friends, like a total of 2 people (not counting online friends. I have a different criteria for it.). One of them is my best friend, the other one is just a close friend, not as close as my best friend to me.

A person becomes my friend when I know that she (or he) won't leave for some stupid reasons, because I won't. Knows and understands the real me. She can freely cry in front of me, can communicate with me just by looking at my eyes or doing body languages that are not obvious to others. She must be willing to make me her diary. We must be comfortable sharing our inner thoughts with each other. I can sleep beside her peacefully without worrying that she will do something bad specially if we're in my family's house ( ie. stealing) She cares about me and doesn't need me just because there's no one else there to choose from.

I'm not much a friend to anyone once i tried to like that person its very hard to.That person don't even know that im trying to be his or her friend.

I become friends with someone once they prove that there is an amount of trust I can safely invest in them. I can usually tell whether or not I can be friends with someone after approximately 3 good conversations and hanging out at a public event with them or working on a project with them. After I have decided that the person may be of good friend quality I will attempt to test whether or not I can trust them. There are two ways I do this. The first is that I will give them a simple task that seems direly important to me or tell them a minor secret of mine and see if they are capable of keeping it a secret. The second way that I know I can trust someone is if they trust me. It only seems fair really that I should give back the same trust that they have in me.

Ah, how I love this question. A friend for me is someone I really do trust when I tell them something personal and they will accept it or try to understand it. A friend is someone you can trust to support you and not back stab you unless they have a very good reason for doing it. A friend is one who you can argue with and still remain close after making it up to each other. A friend is someone you can forgive if they did something wrong and only mean well.

However, then you have to ask about friends you meet online? Are they really your friends? It depends on what kind of person they are. I've dealt with people who try to kidnap others, and people who really just want someone they can trust when they tell their deepest darkest secrets. When you look at this, we sometimes tell our secrets to strangers we don't know more than our friends, because perhaps we feel we don't want to be too affected by our own friend's reaction, as compared to one behind a computer.

However, I do have a long distance friend I have grown very close to, and I know for sure I can trust him. He changed the way I view life, listened to my problems, understood me, and really cared. At the same time, I actually saved him and his lover's life. If I had not treated him so close like a brother and never helped him with his problem, he really could have been hurt horribly and I would have never heard from him again. And he has also protected my life from someone quite dangerous, however I am not allowed to speak of the details. But the fact that we both protected each other and changed our lives drastically is what makes a true friend I feel.

I've met people who aren't your real friends in real life, and I'll tell you, they can be quite harsh. One day, I had met this girl at one of our school concerts, she was pretty nice, and she mentioned earthbound. To meet someone who knew about earthbound was practically a dream come true. So I decided to get to know this girl better, and she seemed like a fun person, and she was taller than me too heh. But then, after awhile, one of her friends called me over, so I do just that, and she's acting all weird looking like she wants to tell me something. Then finally, she says, "Can you like, leave me alone, forever?" So, of course, i didn't know her too well, but I said, "Okay, that's fine." I decided to do a little research since the way she looked at me after I said that was quite a threatening glare. I found out, this girl is the kind to act different around her friends and doesn't really have the best parents. Apparently, she did that to many other of her friends too and sometimes would meet them alone later and say she'd be their friend but not in front of her own?

That right there is certainly not a true friend if she cannot accept having a friend around her own. And sadly, there are many other people like this, but it can't be helped when you don't want your own friends to ditch you, but then that would mean she doesn't have any true friends and those who are actually the right kind, she happens to push away. I have never done that to any of my friends, nor have my true friends done that to me and instead always want to introduce me to their other friends. To feel comfortable around another and be yourself just as you are is the mark of a real friend. A friend that can make fun of who you are and you won't react to it because you probably do the same to your friends is how a real friend gets along. My best friend and I argue a lot and call each other so many things, but we also protect each other and remain the greatest friends bros can ever be.

I guess as long as I can trust that person and have a conversation with them rather easily, I can consider them a friend, or at least an acquaintance that could easily be a friend. There are people that I have known for years, yet I still don't consider them a friend, most likely because I just don't like them lol. Then there's the people who think that just because they did something nice for me once, that I should automatically be their friend and appreciate everything they do and not ever question them. But with that I'm referring to a more specific story, haha.

I agree with geeo. Someone's my friend when I'm comfortable with them, and the conversation just flows naturally.

I'm not terribly reserved about calling anyone a friend. As long as I have good conversation with the person semi-often I'm content to call them a friend. Certainly, almost anyone who shares interests with me would be a friend in my eyes, given that we talk with each other at least every so often.

I do make distinctions as to friends and trusted or good friends, and at one point I knew one person I would consider my bff (though it did not last forever after all). I consider someone a good friend when I talk to them quite a lot and have known them for at least a few months.

As for who I tell certain things, I am usually willing to answer any questions anyone cares to ask, but I don't tend to simply come out and talk about myself aside from things like my hobbies and preferences.

warmaker : I think it is important to be friendly with everyone you come across. For me I always like it when either I can make people laugh or the other way around it’s a pretty good ice breaker in terms if initially talking to and getting to know someone. In terms of when you know whether their friends or not well, that can be kind of tricky.

It depends on a couple of things. For instance, if you’re real friendly with someone and you confide in them about things you don’t want to let everyone know about, you expect that what ever you tell them is to stay between you and them. If the person keeps things between you two then that shows that the person can be trusted but, if that person spews to everyone what you told them in confidence then it shows that they weren’t really on the up and up with you and that you may want to reconsider the friendship.

There are also other circumstances that you should consider. I myself use to have many friends when I was in school. Because of a lot of nonsense that went on I went from many friends to a few that I really trusted. It turned out that some friends of mine weren’t on the up and up with me probably because once we were in high school some were focused solely on “Fitting in” and or “Being cool” and they kind of turned into different people than the ones that I knew for years prior.

Because of this and because of nonsense that went on there became hard feelings between me and some people for years. However, I have come across some of the people who weren’t on the up and up with me back then since I ventured into social media and, it turns out that most of the folks that weren’t on the up and up with me kind of went back to how they were before high school in terms of how they acted and treated people.

I won’t lie, I had my reservations about reconnecting with some of them because of the nonsense that went on and what I ended up going through. At the same time because I am in media I can’t just automatically deny access to people simply because I may have hard feelings. I had to at least be open to giving them a second chance to at least see how things went.

I didn’t expect things to be as warm and cordial as they have been between me and some of these people. In fact most of them have become quite supportive of me and my career since reconnecting with me. It made me feel a little better about things because I was able to look past what I went through and in some cases rebuild friendships based on how we all are now as people with no conversation or worry about what had gone on in the past. I won’t lie I held on to anger and resentment for some of these people for years.

So what I’m saying is although some people may end up taking your friendship for granted it is always good to remember that people mess up sometimes. Sometimes friends can lose sight of the things and friendships that really matter when their focused on other things such as “Fitting in”. It’s always good to be open to giving people a second chance even when you’ve gone through a lot of stuff due to those friends who weren’t on the up and up with you. In situations like that it is important to show that you can be a bigger person and move past that. In some cases you may even be able to forgive some friends for things that happened in time.
As I said before I did have mixed feelings about opening access to some of these people because of things went on. As I admitted if I wasn’t in media and just worked a regular job I can’t say that I would be as open to reconnecting with some people but it’s been an enjoyable experience and I am glad that I was able to move past everything.

I'd say a person would be my friend if I got to know them and never had a fight however that would be a terrible lie as every single friend I've had until I was 14 met me by punching me in the face and or jimmies. However after learning about inner peace and whatever monk hoo-haa I've learned to control the situation in any room so that is no longer the case.

Now what I really think is that someone would become a true friend to me when something out of the ordinary happens and we decide on working together to get through that certain predicament instead of ditching each other, I've never ditched anyone before but I have been ditched by acquaintances many times. I've noticed that these few people seem to have a lack of personality and unique traits which probably also explains why I'm not interested in becoming friends with them.

For one to become a good friend, yeah you need trust, and somebody you can communicate with. For me is somebody who can care for you when you are at your lowest lows, your highest highs, and everything in between. Somebody who can do anything within a heartbeat for you, basically.

Pretty much,it all sums up for trustworthiness and support.

It takes a while for me to be comfortable around  someone,Hence,i Don't really have many friends..

Someone becomes your friend when a person's like-minded, friendly and trustworthy (of each other.) However, that's not always the case. It usually happens where they meet for the first time and then start spending time together doing stuff they both enjoy. Then they develop confidence in being with the person so they start to be more friendlier. It upgrades from walking past each other saying nothing to greeting each other everyday. From there, it goes to spending time talking with each other and mutual or other friends. From there it develops into a bond. They trust each other and communicate well (no trying to avoid them by hiding in bushes or something). It also occurs where the two friends make each other happy, make them laugh and enjoy the time they spend together. Another way is where two people have a mutual friend and the mutual friend gets the two to meet each other. Those are some ways friendship starts.

Someone becomes your friend when they engage activities with you and have respect for each other. They have trust or something like that with each other so they can talk together knowing that the other person would have a kind of neutral or positive reply and stuff.