I hadn't really ever given this much thought, but now if I categorize the overwhelming majority of my friends, they fall into the following buckets: High-Schoo

I hadn't really ever given this much thought, but now if I categorize the overwhelming majority of my friends, they fall into the following buckets: High-School Friends (who I still stay in touch with, although only peripherally, as I don't still live where I grew up) College Friends (which includes a subset of High School friends, who I do a better job of staying in touch with, but who also mostly live back where I went to school) Work Friends (the overwhelming majority of my friends are people I've worked with at one time or another. Reservations about mixing work with pleasure aside, people in my line of work tend to have a lot in common) Photography School Friends (I suppose similar to college, but they are more recent, and local. This group is unusual in that the entire class ended up becoming really really close) For whatever reason, I've never had trouble meeting people. What has proven to be a lot of work is actually committing to spending time with people (as my natural state is to never want to leave the house under any circumstances). I've found online presence exacerbates that, as it's easy for me to convince myself that I'm being social merely by responding to people's Facebook posts (which doesn't really cut it).