How would you define a good friend or friendship?
A good friend is someone who you get on well with, I think in my opinion 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're 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 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?
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 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 100 friends and I think that's enough because that's already most of the people that I'm in regular contact with on Facebook are 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 they kind of make me angry but it's something that I kind of like doing and if I had more than 100 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 100 or so friends that I've got are not people that I would be 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 haven't actually gotten 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 basis of communication is having fun or exchanging opinions they don't tend to be 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.