Some questions asked on Formspring really got me thinking I should share my personal opinion here. My full-fledged answer. Let me start off with this, definition of friend by dictionary.com

Friend.

-A person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.

-A person who gives assistance.

-A person who is on good terms with another; A person who is not hostile.

Everybody has different definitions of everything. You can be one who has the same definition of the word 'friend' with the society. I'll have to disappoint you to tell you that I'm not the same as others.

Personally and to put it explicitly, friends, fake or true, they're meant to be made use of.

Be it in terms of studies, times when you've lent money from them, went out with them to have fun, received birthday presents from them, smoked with them, made pacts with them. Everything. They're just unseen forms of one another being made use of.

Are you not being used when your friends wants you to help him/her for schoolwork?

Are you not being used when your friends ask you out to have fun with them? Just because you've enjoyed yourself too, doesn't diminish the fact that you're 'being used' to entertain them and spend off whatever spare time they have on their hand.

The rest, you can slowly derive them yourself.

You may say that a true friend is a friend you need.

You need for what? For his/her help? To cheer you up? You're subconsciously making use of your friend to cheer you up, to bring you back to your feet again. Be it that your friend wants to do it or not. For the term is 'subconsciously'.

Now tell me, what's a true friend again?

Just because the first person who created the word 'friend' defines it so, you're going to blindly follow the definition of 'friend'?

Just because the lightbulb was invented, does it mean that you can only light things up with a lightbulb? Laughs.

I live in my own world, and nobody should have the right to criticize. In fact, I hope everybody're in their own world, and not just blindly following what's taught to them, blindly following the way that society defines them to be, etc.

Are you going to be just another Albert Einstein or Thomas Edision, or you want to be who you are deep down inside?

I know society's perception on things have led things that people want to be become impossible.

At the end of the day, are you going to stay true to yourself, or are you going to get swayed and brainwashed by the 'rules and regulations' set up by the very first person who created them?

The DJ got us fallin' in love again.