Ummmmm...

a ton. ._.

I have a lot. I don't really consider people on the internet as 'friends'. I mean, come on. You have never talked to them in real life, you might not even have seen their faces. You don't go to their house, birthday parties, ride around town on your bike, or just hang out. You just talk on the internet. I just don't think they constitute as friends.

That's not always true. People meet online as friends and then meet up IRL frequently. My closest friend is a guy I met over the Internet. We've shared pictures and videos of each other, chatted a lot on the phone, and he was even able to visit me for my birthday last year...and it was easily the best birthday I ever had because of that. So it's not a "never see them IRL" situation.

Well, I wouldn't exactly be too into meeting someone I meet on the internet...It'd be very akward.

Hm...I have about 5 good friends, but do creepy people that want to be your friend really badly so they follow you count? I have like...4-5 of those.

I think there should've been higher options that 9+ though. I mean, 9? It should've gone much higher.

Yeah, no kidding. I've got like eleventy-billion MySpace friends. I'm constantly saying things like "Thanks for the add!" and "Will U friend me?"

On a less facetious note, I feel that I have plenty of friends. My closest friends would include my wife, my siblings, and my parents. On another level, I have a couple of people from high school and a couple of people from college that I am in contact with relatively often, and that I would definately look up if I were to be in the same city as them for a while. Most common would be people that I have I have a more "structured" relationship with. People I play basketball with, people I go to church with, people I work with, people whose wives are best friends with my wife, people on a certain forum I frequent. There are lots of people in this group that I like, and I enjoy their company or whatever. It's just that outside of our one common interest, we don't really interact. But between those 3 levels, I feel that I have lots of friends.

But I also know how it can feel to only have that 3rd level of friends as well. Most of high school I only had friends on that lower level, and I never really felt as if I was part of a group. It was pretty lonely. Even the people whom I now count as close friends from high school weren't really close friends back then. It's more that since then, for some reason, we stayed in contact, or were put back in contact, and our deeper level of friendship more or less solidified after the "structured" element of high school had fallen away.