>>718900560
Its a good idea to separate out the categories instead of lumping everyone you know as a "friend".
I would say there is basically 4 (or 5 if you categorize people you don't know)
Acquaintance
Close Acquaintance
Friend
Close friend
Acquaintances are people you are literally acquainted with, in that you know them and they know you, maybe they are/were a colleague you were introduced to, you went to school with them, they go to a place you go to regularly and you have met them.
Close acquaintances being those you actually talk to, not friends, but maybe that person you talk to at work, the guy you chat to about some hobby, many peoples online friends fall into this category. The easiest way to tell between an acquaintance and close one would be imagine if you ran into them on the street, would you say hi and maybe strike up a conversation, or would you just kind of look and maybe do an acknowledgement or a bit of a wave type deal.
pretty easy to get people from the first to the second category, just talk to them about shit, if you have nothing in common, idk why you want to know them in the first place.
Then we move onto friends, which sounds where you are struggling to get people to move to.
Friends are actually people you do things with, not the people you meet at some prescheduled event, be it work, school, organized hobbies, etc, the people you specifically organize to meet up with and who are meeting up with you to see you and do something together.
To end up friends with someone rather than acquaintances its as simple as just doing things with them outside of the aforementioned way you know them, if they are colleague, you organize something outside of work with them.
Usually its a bit weird to out of the blue hit people up like this unless you have know them for ages, which is why trips make people friends often, but after you finish whatever you see them are regularly, you could go get food, after a few times if it goes well, you end up friends.
