Isn't having a few friends a good thing?

[Peter]

Why are some people so depressed on yahoo about having a few friends or no friends at all?
Do you really want 10-20 people texting and calling you all day? You also have to check you emails, face book, and twitter EVERY hour. There are friends who will throw a fit if you don't respond to them quick enough.It's a pain in the butt.

[MrsB]

My husband and I both only have a few close friends. We use to have a bunch and then we got busy with our lives. So then our friends started getting smaller and smaller. The friends we have are our true friends. They are the ones we can related to and are truely always there for us. We have a bunch of people (former friends) that we know and keep in touch with through facebook, but dont feel oblicated to hang out with them. We found out the our we can no longer relate to our former friends (partly because we are at different step in our life) and some of the others were never there for us. You only need a couple good friends. In my opinion