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Pretty much what you said but in relation to "real friends". When I was in high school and in college, I had a tight knit circle of friends that I could at least talk to and hang out with once in a while. Eventually we drifted apart naturally and amicably and (slight PL) I have been trying to relive that friendship with other people. It made me realize how self-serving and annoying most people are in real life and how the very few people are genuinely good natured. I just stop talking to people outside of my family, with exceptions to a couple people I really find I like talking to on a regular basis at church and at work. They are genuinely nice people and I enjoy my conversations with them, even if they are on a weekly basis and rather short. They are something to look forward to unlike most conversations, which are a chore. I've just learned to live for God, my family and myself. With very few exceptions,
everyone one else and fuck off unless they are paying me to care. Really, it's not the quantity of relationships you have but the quality of them that matters,
yet most people are willing to sacrifice the latter for the former.
With Internet friends, I always realized that was a bit ephemeral though since you are seeing an avatar rather than an actual person. But it's still nice knowing there are people that see the same problems you do with society, think similarly and can have an actual intellectual discussion with, something that's becoming extremely rarer in today's social media infested world.