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[Darvi]

I was going to answer, but then I found out I could hardly even answer half of the questions.

This is how I feel about this survey, but Imma give it a go anyway.

Ya, yer right.

G:Male


1) Respecting somebody (just a bit) and not minding having them around me.
2) Heck if I know. That's one of the emotions I do not have.
3) Nada. "close" is too close for comfort
4) N/A
5) Just do whatever I do. Eventually I'm bound to meet people who have the same interests as I do and then, I dunno. If not, whatever.
6) Talking I guess. I'm not one for doing much with people. Oh, and helping them out with stuff, like school or crosswords.
7) I would probably not help them with that (why bother the risk?), but I'd probably not tell somebody about it either. At most I guess I'd tell them not to do it.
Uhh... not being an arse to each other? Being a bit of a jerk is okay though.
9) Dunno.
10) see 9)


B: With me, every acquaintance is only temporary. Including friendship.

[Sowelu]

Male.

1. What does friendship mean to you.
A mutual trust that two or more people will continue their relationship in the future.  Some friendships are based on having fun, or sharing/introducing interests, or in saving each others' lives on a regular basis; but if you don't trust it to be there tomorrow, it's not a friendship.  Love is a kind of friendship.

2. What is love? (Any and all Haddaway jokes get no points.)
When someone makes you a better person.  (Or makes you want to be a better person.)

3. How many close friends do you have?
4

4. What makes these people your close friends?
A combination of a long history together (strong basis for trust, and lots of shared experiences to enhance future interaction) plus knowing that I could absolutely rely on them in time of need

5. How do you best make new friends?
Find someone interesting, identify a unique common interest to them, and work from there.  I met one of my best friends (best friend in real life) when I discovered that we both had 'shiny things' listed as an interest on a social website, another friend on campus through unusual shared artistic interests, a third through a webcomic forum when we were both about to go to the same university (and my fourth through him).  An unusual interest is a good conversation starter, and "we both have this interest and are going to be in a community that doesn't normally have it" is a good place to go.

6. What do you most enjoy doing with your friends?
Tabletop gaming, or unusual TV shows.

7. What is the furthest you would go for your best friend? (IE: Help them with murder, cheat on a test, etc.)
Anything that helps them more than it hurts me.  And remember, value isn't the same for all people.  If I make a ton of money, and they've been out of work for a while, helping them out with critical expenses helps them a lot more than it hurts me even though it's the same unit of money.

8. What do you think is most important in a friendship?
Trust that you'll both continue to get something out of the friendship.  That means no backstabbing, no destructive behavior, and shared interests that won't change too much.  Temporary slips are more than acceptable, depending on how valuable / long term the friendship is.

9. Do you think there is something your gender values more in a friendship than the other? If so, what?
No

10. What do you think the other gender values more?
About the same

Bonus question: Do you think friendships are meant to last, or can even very temporary acquaintances become friends?
If you don't plan to communicate with someone again, it is no longer a friendship.  Talk to someone every week or two in class for a couple minutes, that can be a friendship.  The year ends, but you expect to see them once classes start again, the friendship continues over the summer.  You graduate, go to different places, and make no plans to communicate in the future, the friendship ends.  I don't consider that negative.

[freeformschooler]

Well, I will do this because I am a social butterfly IRL.

G: Male.

1. What does friendship mean to you.

A friendship means someone who will put up with sitting beside you and listening to you talk for an amount of time... but what separates it from other things is that you'll do the same for them  May or may not come with the benefits of lying for each other, sleepovers, standing up for each other and so on. Basically, someone who genuinely cares enough for you to put up with whatever differences you may have provided you (hopefully) give them the same.

2. What is love? (Any and all Haddaway jokes get no points.)

Love is an amalgamation of physical attraction, caring and emotional and intellectual attachment that  makes your partner in love supersede whoever else you may share one or two of those things with. Love is, put best, a two-sided attachment to another person unlike other attachments.

3. How many close friends do you have?

Precisely two. I'm very choosy with my close friends as opposed to regular friends.

4. What makes these people your close friends?

The fact that we have enough similarities and shared interests that we can regularly bond over them to the point where we're able to share things with each other that we wouldn't share with other people.

5. How do you best make new friends?

The same way most people do, by happening to meet them, being introduced or making an effort to say hi and get to know them. Usually I'm the one that takes initiative and goes up and says hi, though.

6. What do you most enjoy doing with your friends?

Playing video games, of course. Oh, and since we're all creative, we challenge each other to create-offs where we task each other to make something in a specific format (picture, programming, written word, 3d, so on)

7. What is the furthest you would go for your best friend? (IE: Help them with murder, cheat on a test, etc.)

I only ever helped romantic partners cheat on tests and I wouldn't help anyone with a murder. I think the furthest I'd go is standing of to them in the face of immediate danger.

8. What do you think is most important in a friendship?

Caring and sharing, as cliche as it sounds.

9. Do you think there is something your gender values more in a friendship than the other? If so, what?

I'm sorry, but I cannot answer this question, as my mindset is so far removed from most people of my gender and age that I would not be able to give a decent response. From what I've seen, it seems to be having someone to talk behind other people's backs to, and say awful things. Mostly the latter, though.

10. What do you think the other gender values more?

Actually the same, I think. Hmm. Only with more talking behind backs ("gabbing", "gossiping") and less saying awful things.

[Heron TSG]

Thanks for all the responses, guys. This'll help me out a ton.

[ToonyMan]

What a really cooperative thread.  Threads that ask for peoples opinions will always be nice because everybody loves being heard themselves.  No matter the medium.

Please state your gender.

Man.

1. What does friendship mean to you.

It means people that like each other which ends up with them hanging out or talking during school.

2. What is love? (Any and all Haddaway jokes get no points.)

Baby don't hurt me.  (I lose)

3. How many close friends do you have?

None.  On the internet I'm more sociable and have more conversations, but I can't consider that close friends either.

5. How do you best make new friends?

I would have to like them first.  Then I would need to nerve to speak to them and it just works from there.

6. What do you most enjoy doing with your friends?

Enjoy ourselves with discussion mostly.  :]

7. What is the furthest you would go for your best friend? (IE: Help them with murder, cheat on a test, etc.)

Hmmm, I would help them cheat on a test.  I probably don't have the courage to stand up for them if they're being messed with.  And I wouldn't help a murderer usually.

8. What do you think is most important in a friendship?

Sincerity and forgiveness.

9. Do you think there is something your gender values more in a friendship than the other? If so, what?

Trust?

10. What do you think the other gender values more?

These questions are stupid.

Bonus question: Do you think friendships are meant to last, or can even very temporary acquaintances become friends?

Yes they're meant to last.  If time changes who you are enough that your friends aren't your friends than you're a completely different person.  Or they have changed.

[Ricky]

Might I ask what it will help with?
 
Please state your gender.- Male

1. What does friendship mean to you.- Having someone who trusts you, you can trust, along with being generally nice.

2. What is love?- Uhhh.

3. How many close friends do you have?- In my class of 12, I have two Close friends, and the rest are just friends. One is a close friend because I can trust him with secrets, along with being nearly the exact same personality as me, and the other is my close friend because he just is.

4. What makes these people your close friends?- One is a close friend because I can trust him with secrets, along with being nearly the exact same personality as me, and the other is my close friend because he just is.

5. How do you best make new friends? I tend to consider myself a funny guy, so i make some friend that way. laugh laugh har har. But,  talking, being nice, general 'friend' things.

6. What do you most enjoy doing with your friends? Stuff.

7. What is the furthest you would go for your best friend? In my laid back school, I've help a kid on a test once or twice, I'd be willing to do something more if the time and place were right, but only if I found it to be useful to me. I wouldn't help do stupid things that I find useless.

8. What do you think is most important in a friendship?- See no. 1

9. Do you think there is something your gender values more in a friendship than the other? If so, what?- Only God knows.

10. What do you think the other gender values more?- God hasn't told me yet.

Bonus question: Do you think friendships are meant to last, or can even very temporary acquaintances become friends?
 
too lazy to do bonus

[Aramco]

In my class of 12

Your class of twelve? Like Bay12? You misleading us, here?

[Darvi]

Maybe he meant that he has 12 people in his class. It's possible, my class only has 10 people. Not counting the biology-losers of course.

[Realmfighter]

Male

1. A pair of people who enjoy each others company

2. A pair of people who enjoy each others company to a much greater degree

3. 2-3

4. I see and talk to them for a significant amount of time every school day

5. Fall into them, try not to be a asshole.

6. Talking

7. As far as I could get without getting caught.

8. Being able to deal with your friends shit.

9. Don't really think that way, and I can really try to understand thoughts that I have never had myself

10. See 9

Bonus question: Depends on the person.

[Aramco]

Maybe he meant that he has 12 people in his class. It's possible, my class only has 10 people. Not counting the biology-losers of course.

No, I think he's/she's talking about Bay12. He's/she's here already, so it is entirely possible.

[Ricky]

First of all, I stated my gender in the survey, and yes, there are twelve people in my class. It has no relation to bay12, however strange that is.

[ToonyMan]

Small classes are pretty common for me.  I have classes that range from 20 to 3 kids.

[Sowelu]

I'm intrigued that my answer to "what is love" is apparently unique in this thread.

[Heron TSG]

This survey is being conducted to help a research paper of mine on differing methods of friendly relationship creation and sustainability.

This is what it's for. I'll respond to all this information in a bit, but for now I must head to Track practice.

[Aramco]

First of all, I stated my gender in the survey,

Oh, you did? Oh. You did. Observation is not my strong suit.

and yes, there are twelve people in my class. It has no relation to bay12, however strange that is.

HERESY

But, I personally, am actually interested in seeing how people answer question number seven.