“If a person has lots of friends，it means that he or she has the ability to get along with others in all kinds of different situations，” said Xu Yanchun,17，from Nantou High School in Shenzhen，who totally agreed with the recent finding.“Also，friends always help each other.They not only create wider social circles for you but lift your mood when you are occasionally in low spirits，” said Xu.She believed that all this helps you “earn a higher salary”．

　　Maybe that’s why some people think the younger generations

　　are in the age of Friendaholism (交友狂症)？A woman even complained that the networking website Facebook’s 5,000­friend limit was too low for her large reserve of social contacts.

　　But what does a friend mean？Should friends be regarded as a form of currency?

　　“Call me uncool，but I think of a friend as an actual person with whom I have an actual history and whom I enjoy actually seeing.It seems，however，that this is no longer the definition of a friend，” said Meghan Daum，who works with the Los Angeles Times in the US.

　　Daum dislikes the idea that quantity trumps quality in the age of Friendaholism.She thought the idea of friendship，at least among the growing population of Internet social networkers，was to get as many of not­really­friends as possible.For example，a friend might be someone you might know personally but who could just as easily be the friend of a friend of some

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