Friends: Building Your Network

I have decided to post a series of articles about friendships and relationships.

My goal is to see how our offline network of friends and relatives relates to our online network.

Today’s post comes from my friend Teeg, of Sucomments.com

I have a theory that when it comes to friends, there are two types of people in the world…those who need and desire frequent contact with their friends and those who are happy to get together whenever life allows a few moments of pleasure.

The second kind of people are the ones who can call an old friend they haven’t seen in 20 years and suddenly they’re talking like they saw each other only yesterday.

People who have the first kind of friend personality have a very hard time understanding people who have the second kind.

I have a good friend who is type ‘one’. Her husband is type ’two’ and she has a hard time with his attitude towards friends.

Luckily, my husband and I are both type ‘two’.

We have a lot of good friends all over the world, but seeing them frequently isn’t an issue for us.

Maybe once or twice a year we’ll contact most of them and talk for a bit (some more often, some less)…and know that if life ever brings us near them again, we’ll pick up right where we left off.

My friend who is type ‘one’ thinks that the issue is male vs female, but I don’t think so.

I’m still studying the issue, trying to determine what makes one person need frequent contact while another is just as happy to speak every once in a while.

Perhaps it relates to personality types, maybe extroverts need more stimulation from friendships? I’m not sure, what do you think?

Teeg

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