Do you have many (best) friends?

[Samantha]

Do you have many friends or is your circle small?

My circle is really small in terms of friendship, but that's more due to social anxiety, but I prefer it that way! I would say my boyfriend is definitely one of my best friends as well as my sister and mum really, they're definitely the people I am closest to.

I do have work friends, but I don't really hang out with them outside of work.

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[Triz]

Honestly I have 1 friend.. literally.
I have other people I talk to on occasion yeah, and old school friends who I see once every few months, but only 1 friend who I talk to religiously throughout the week and I see him every weekend too. I guess I have a lot of what I would class as in-between a friend and an acquaintance... Not quite a true friend, but at the same time I know them too well for it to be classed as an acquaintance

Can't understand people who say they have more than like 2 or 3 friends, I can barely maintain 1, could possibly squeeze in another but I'm not sure I want to lol

[Samantha]

I have a bad habit when certain people talk to me (even those I class as friends or work friends). They'll message me (or sometimes I'll start messaging them) and I then try and end the conversation repeatedly after each of their replies. I don't mean to do it, I think it's just the anxiety I have and it's not like I need to speak to them at that moment in time.

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[Triz]

Is that just via text or do you try to shut down convos in person as well?

[Samantha]

I'd actually have to have conversations irl to do that .

Nah I'm joking, but it's just text ones. If I'm talking to someone irl and I'm in a rush I'll just tell them that, but to say I'm shy around new people I actually do like having proper conversations irl. I think you learn a lot more about a person verbally than you do over a text.

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[Triz]

See I'm like 50/50, I enjoy having convos irl, but not with strangers, mainly because I always find it so awkward unless we have a lot to talk about, which isn't often the case. There is always awkward silences and the convo doesn't often flow...

Plus I HATE small talk, like when I call the office at work. I call them for a reason, normally to find out where I'm going next, most people would say "Hi, you alright?" But I just get straight to it and say "Hi, where am I heading next?" Because quite frankly I don't care how they are lol.

I'm half decent at small talk when I need to be, but that's just me pretending to be someone I'm not, and it doesn't feel right...

[Samantha]

Oh yeah strangers I'm not the best with, I just never know what to say or how to start a conversation. Luckily, my workmates are lovely and they don't do small talk much, they message me on Facebook for my rota or if they want me to do extra instead. I prefer that as I can reply in my own time (plus for some reason they don't have my number).

It was worse at my old job, I had my mum's old number for a bit. I changed it plenty of times, but they kept ringing that number and worried my mum sick because she thought something had happened to me at work. I didn't like talking at my old job to others, at my new job it's a lot better and I feel so much better for it as well.

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[Triz]

Yet you're perfectly happy talking to a stranger via text on the internet.

Amazing what a face to face interaction can do to a person. I guess plus the fact that on here we have time to think of a response and what would possibly take us 15 minutes to talk through would only take about 2 or 3 minutes irl.

Plus idk about you but I'm almost a different person irl compared to online, not in my mannerisms or anything, but moreso the way I word things, I word things a lot better online than I do irl, I think that's due to my college days where I was forced to actually write and construct proper sentences etc lol

[scottish]

I have many friends, but a small circle of 'close' friends.

[scatterbox]

I've got a large social group of friends, but out of those i'd say like 3-4 really close friends.