What is a friend?

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vivster said:

Whatever you define it to be. In my opinion most people's bar for calling someone a friend is painfully low.

For example I would not call anyone on my Steam friends list a friend. I would say right now only 2 people would fit my standards with a dozen people being friendly acquaintances and another 100 being mutual not-hating relationships.

We have a winner! This here seems to be very similar to my view on what a friend is.