My longest surviving friend has been my friend for 4 years

[Raistlin]

I am much like peegee. I had friends in high school that I had known since I was 9, but once I moved to college we barely talk. I just don't even think to put in the effort to keep in contact with most people.

Not counting online friends, my longest lasting current friend is at about three years now. Based on precedent, we probably won't talk much after college is over.

I don't make close friends very easily anymore. I tend to like people less the more I am around them. So I do not know how people do it either, pg.

[Breine]

I've had some of my longest lasting friends since I was in day care. I live in a small town so everyone practically knows everyone, and so keeping in contact with those I went to elementary school with isn't really that difficult since almost all of us still live in the same town. It'll change over the next couple of years, though, since both all of my friends from my childhood and from High School and stuff will move away from home to study in either one of the three biggest cities of Denmark.. So we'll be scattered to all of the winds. A couple of my friends are even moving to another country (Germany.. I live an hour away from the border, but still).

Keeping contact probably won't be hard, though, since many are moving to the same city as me, or have already moved there, and besides Denmark is not that big of a country. If you want to get from one end of the country to another it'll mostly take you three hours.. so no biggie, really.

[Randgris]

I haven't had contact with my friends for a few years now. Its my fault. I got lazy. I don't even know where they are and what they are doing.

[Caraliz]

my longest friend i left behind in illinois, we were friends for a year and still going strong though we don't really talk much anymore. we weren't very close. we hung out every single day almost but we weren't close in the sense that she cared about me; i hesitate to say any of my friends have genuinely cared.

online i have the same problem 'cos either don't keep in touch or there's drama and we have a falling out.

bert's been my best friend for 8-9 months now and my boyfriend for about 6. i hope we can keep it going, as it is my longest relationship to date.

[Vikeve]

Well, I'm only fifteen so it's not hard for me to but I've kept my best friend as my best friend since pre-k! I've kept most of my friendships with people and actually anyone I ended up loosing contact with when I was young or any friend who I began to hate during middle school I have become friends with again at the Highschool which I find funny.

[Lawr]

I've known my best friend since I was 5. So that's 10 years.

[Jess]

There is this one girl I met the day I started school after moving to Essex from Newcastle at the age of 6. We're still friends now, at the ages of 18. We've been friends for 12 years and now my family and I are moving back to Newcastle when our house sells. She is even thinking about coming to live up there with me in two years time after she finishes some Law qualification she's doing - but whether or not that happens, we'll remain friends, with her coming to visit and me coming back here to visit her.

Other long friendships I have are around 7-8 years.

[Momiji]

The longest was 8 years.... But she changed and became a bully to me. *cries*
But same here, I'm not very good at keeping friendship or contact, whenever I try, they don't seem to care. So I'd think, what's the point?

Same here. My best friend for almost 16 years turned on me recently and refuses to talk to me because I'm not a lame-ass conformist like he is. Many of my other friendships locally have turned sour as well. My best friend locally would have to be my cousin, but I only see him maybe once a month because he's too busy with his other friends.

I like my e-pals more anyway.

[fire_of_avalon]

I've known the three most important women in my life for 18, 15 and 12 years respectively. Our relationships are similar to what Miriel spoke of; we don't really talk a bunch, but when we do it's always natural and easy.

[XCGriever]

I met my longest running friend in kindergarten when I was 5, so 15 years for her but for the past 5 years, I've been hanging out with her little brother more. I still go to her house and see her and her son every weekend though (I'm Uncle Pat!). BTW, my longest running relationship is 5 days, so friends are a lot more tolerant than better halves (Apparently...).

[Bunny]

My longest surviving friendship is going on 6 years. We started out as internet friends and about 5-6 months into our friendship we met up for the first time. A few months after that, I lived with him for a year or so and we have kept in close contact ever since. So we aren't necessarily "internet" friends anymore, just long distance. Although it seems to be ending as we get further and further apart.

The next longest friendship I have is around 3 years, also an internet beginning and now I live in the same town as him and consider him my "best" friend.

Aside from those two particular people, I have never had a friend for more than a year.

[theundeadhero]

I've known my best friend for 12 years, another friend for 17 years, and my longest friend for my whole life.

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

Online friends do not count

Then I don't have any friends.

However, I do plan on meeting the very few people on the internetz I consider friends. And that's no more than 2 or 3 people I've known since at the latest, 2005.

[Shlup]

I have very few friends who've been my friend for only four years. My longest-running friendship is 26-years and counting. That's right, and I'm only 25. She's 10 months older than me and she used to lay on my mom's stomach and I'd kick her. She lives half the country away right now, but we still have an hour-long conversation ever couple of weeks.

[rubah]

frankly, that's awesome shlup