h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Friends and Friendship - A13106503
Author: Galaxy Babe - Scout/ACE/Sub-Ed - U128652

Friends and Friendship for review.

Submitted 21 July

Great article, I agree with everything you've put in to this. However I do feel a little piece about being able to tell a true friend anything without being judged by them would be an idea.

Thanks

Added

What a sweet little article!

Nothing to add, except that I guess you may be considering a link to A5823001 "'Friends' - The TV Series" at some point.

Icy

I wondered who would tell me that. I thought it would've been Mu Beta, so well done on beating him to it, Icy

Added a footnote...

Nice one GB. I can't think of any changes it needs.

lovely entry

Wonderful, Annie.. and rather telling that it is you writing it A couple of points. Under boundaries, you could mention money as another boundary not to be crossed. My grandmother used to say that a true friend was one you brought your problem to like a sack of wheat and they helped you blow the chaff from the seed...
W

Thanks everyone!

Added that about money and added your Gran's words Wilma, thank you

subs onto thread and will reread 2morrow

Lovely entry. Might it be worth mentioning the health benefits of having friends? I believe there is even an ideal number, not too few & not too many.

This is great. It gets better with re-reading too

As a purely editorial comment, I see that you have the headers: 'What Are Friends', and 'How Do Friendships Begin' but then 'Boundaries', 'Sex', and 'Trust' follow as headers - however, it seems to me that these could be sub-headers under 'How Are Friendships Maintained' or something like that. Further, if you went for such a scheme, I'd suggest that you move:
'To have a friend you must also be a friend - and be prepared to be there for them should they need you. Failure in this respect would label you a fair-weather friend and most probably dumped.'
to directly under the 'How are Friendships Maintained', or some such, header. (It's really just an organizational type of suggestion - the entry reads fine as it is.)

Since this is about real-life friends as opposed to online friends, and since the audience will necessarily be on line, you might want to admonish the reader to turn off the computer and go visit a real life friend.

'Friends are a much better medication than medication is.'
This, I think, is well established and there ought to be a stunning link somewheres about. Offhand, I found http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/human/pubs/fcs2911.pdf
but with a little digging a better one could surely be found.

Terrific work

Thanks very much

updated

I've added a quote from Khalil Gibran as the introduction.

Great entry, GB.

I only spotted one typo - a missing "you" (how apt, in an entry about friendship!):

"Certainly don't sleep with their current partner, even if *you* did it because you think they are a bad match"

But everything else in there was spot on .

fixed, thanks Rains

This is a really nice entry, and I can't think of much to add to it except to suggest that you flesh out the last line a little bit. I don't know what you might say, but perhaps a slightly more substabtial conclusion would finish off this entry nicely?

Thanks
Is that better?

Yes, that's better.