Classification of Friends
We all have friends in our lives, people we always count on when we are in turmoil or facing dire situations. But each of our friends has different characters that build their personality. These traits are like advice, humor, honesty, and caring. When you think about your friends and internalize their behaviors and contrast with their different traits, you will get to know their distinctive personalities categorized under social friends, best friends, and acquaintances. Therefore I will be explain in detail the three main categories of friendships.
The first one is the acquaintances kind of friendship. These are friends you don’t know each other that much, probably you only know each other names but don’t even know what they look like. The acquaintances type of friends is mostly those kinds of friends you meet in class, at the gym, on the bus, in the market, and many more social places. These kinds of friends will always remain to be only random encounters. They are people who help you at one point in life and don’t have any personal attachments with you.
The second cluster of friends is social partners. These are friends whom you meet most of the time at social occasions or are the friends whom you mostly ask to accompany you to social gatherings. Most of these friends you don’t have a personal relationship with compared to true friends but at least know you more than your friends who are just acquaintances.
Best friends are the friends whom you are more emotionally invested in. These friends are mostly those you have grown up with to the extent you can call them friends. These kinds of friends know everything about you, and likewise, they are always there for you when you are low and need a shoulder to lean on.
In summary, through Norton sampler classification rules, we can comfortably compare and contrast the different categories of friendships and come up with different types of friends according to their character.