How would you define a good friend, or friendship?
A good friend is someone who you get on well with, I think, it might be someone who makes you laugh,
and is also there for you, and will listen to you and is supportive, and you are for them, also.
How many good friends would you say you have?
Good friends, I would say, maybe three or four.
What about on Facebook?
On Facebook I have, I think around a hundred friends.
How are friends and Facebook friends different?
Well, Facebook friends are people who you are friends with but who you don't see on a regular basis.
Also, I think, in a lot of ways you become Facebook friends with a person, but you are not really friends with them.
Maybe, it's a friend of a friend who you met once, or it's like friends of family, or extended members of your family, I think it's quite different.
A friend ... a real friend is someone that you see on a regular basis and I think that's what makes the big difference there.
Do you think you can ever have too many friends?
Ah, maybe. Just in the sense that, to be friends with someone you have to spend a certain amount of time with them, and if you have too many friends,
it's going to be difficult to maintain contact with a lot of people.
And so maybe you'll end up losing contact with people,
or they'll maybe feel like you weren't making enough time for them or something like that, but, probably. It's possible.
What about on Facebook?
Too many friends on Facebook? Definitely.
As I said before, I've only got about a hundred friends, and I think that's enough 'cause that's already most of the people that I'm in regular contact with on Facebook,
people who I'm friends with in real life as well, and who I see regularly. I think if you have a lot of friends on Facebook -
well, I mean, it's not something that everyone does, but I like to look through the status updates every day.
They're not particularly interesting, and sometimes they're so boring that they kind of make me angry, but it's something that I kind of like doing.
And if I had more than one hundred friends - like some people have got like a thousand friends or whatever - it would just take ages to go through everyone's update and see what's going on.
Have you ever unfriended someone on Facebook?
I don't think so. I've been meaning to because I feel like the hundred or so friends that I've got are not people that I would be in contact-
in regular contact with in my normal life and I probably won't see them again.
But yeah, I think I've felt bad enough about denying or declining friendship requests;
I've never actually- haven't actually gone to the point of unfriending someone yet, but I might do soon.
Do you think that men and women have similar kinds of friendships?
No, I think they have quite distinct ... I think women tend to be - we're talking stereotypically - women tend to be a lot more personal.
It's about- you talk about what you're feeling and, you know, your personal history or things like that.
I think men tend to be a lot more, I don't know, interested in the here and now. And the,
the basis of communication is, you know, having fun or exchanging opinions, doesn't- not, not tend- they don't tend to be like
... about your history or about your feelings or anything like that. It's very much based on just having a laugh.
Whereas women tend to communicate to support each other and learn about each other, I think.