Conservation of friends

There are only so many hours in a day, so there are only so many friends you can have at one point in time. If you go over your quota, you aren’t really paying attention to each of your friends. Your quality of friendship goes down.
If you get down to one friend, you are on the road to being a stalker.
I suppose some people can handle more friends and maintain a consistent level of friendship.
That’s why you have acquaintances and you have friends. Acquaintances are people you keep track of. Friends are ones that you do stuff with.
If you are only communicating with someone by reading their blog, you are not a friend. You aren’t dong anything together and getting to know them. This was pointed out to me by a (real) friend and I have to agree.
If I want to keep friends, I have to be proactive and actually converse with them. Be active instead of passive.