types of friends

“Life without a friend is like death without a witness.”- As explained by the Spanish Proverb. Friends are an indispensable part of our life. They help us understand new things. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we’re the best, because we matter to them. We don’t need to pretend in front of them, just show the real personality. We all have friends. However, different people have different tastes and viewpoints to make different types of friends. In a questionnaire answered from” World of Reading 3” by Eileen K. Blau, people identified the qualities of making friends and the most important is a friend keeping confidences. A sense of humor followed closely. Good conversationalist is the less valued quality. In general, throughout our lives we come across many types of friends: convenience friends, friend’s of friends, online friends and close friends. Convenience friends usually are our neighbors or classmates who live close to us. These are the people we exchange some small articles of daily use. They will lend us their salt when we run out of it. They will ask us if we want to go shopping with them. They will take care of our pets when we go on vacation for a week. And, when we have visitors, they let us park at their garage. We do these for them also. However, we won’t come very close or tell too much. We may have their facebook or MSN, but conversation is rarely started, unless we talk about weather or colleagues “It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it?” “How is your new company? Are you satisfied with the current salary?”something about ordinary greetings. Thus, convenience friends benefit from each other, but are not usually very close. My friends are friends with your friends so I guess we’re friends, too. These kinds of friends are all about connecting people. I am sure most people know what that means. I have introduced my friend who is going to SBCC to a friend who already was a SBCC student. After a