A few (at most) close friends. Out from those, a spectrum of colleagues, an ever-widening gyre of acquaintances. Sometimes I miss the intense friendships I had in college, those that verged on shared consciousness. I've never had anything like that out here in the "real world", and I've been out here a while.

I have a few close friends who I know have my back, a few less close with similar interests, and several acquaintences. But it's the close friends who mean the world to mde.

I have a few good friends, but I wish I could see them a bit more often. I'd be pretty content with that.

The latter, really. Having a few close acquaintances is nice, too. But not a hundred people I barely know, blech

I love everyone

I prefer quality over quantity. Lots of intenationals on my FB which I like to share what is really going on and vice versa. 20 is a hard number to reach but like we used to say in the Army. Its where you find out that you can count them on one hand. Sad but almost really true.

I'll take a few true friends over a bunch of "here today gone tomorrow" friends any day!