I've noticed there seems to be a lot of rather desperate friendship mania on the internet.

I'm quite cynical about friends, once they think they own you they always start to take you for granted or abuse you. Huge things like facebook with people displaying their "friends" for all the world to see and compare with others, like American high school, how Peter Pan, insecure and narcissistic.

Perhaps people have gone nutty about cyber-friends because their real ones are so hideous or non-existent.

If friendship shouldn't be abandoned in favor of a more mature sense of membership in something greater like humanity, at the very least some genius needs to write an "Art of Friendship" as most people seem to have them confused with enemies.

(Part of my problem is probably that I get on too well with my (very nice) family).

Comments? I know someone is going to say I need therapy, probably true maybe you do too!