[gagaslilmonsteruk]

I keep in contact with about 5 or 6 friends. It's mainly because I guess everybody's at different stages in their lives now, so I guess it's only natural that I'd drift apart from some people. Asides for those I still get on with but don't have much contact with, I use Facebook as a means to stay in touch.

[veracocha]

I find it baffling how many people seem to not want to keep in contact with their friends at home. What the **** do you do in the holidays?!

[RUFC92]

(Original post by Quackers93)
You've pretty much said everything I was going to say


I've tried to keep in touch with friends from school/college but, like people have said before, if you're both not in it then it's not going to work. There are friends who I've tried with and jsut given up. But people do drift apart but the plus side of that is that you're left with your true friends.

That's it, I like to text round and see if anyone fancies a trip out etc. But once I realise they're not making the same effort with me, I don't bother. I play for a cricket club with around 40 swuad members and several other club members/ board members etc, and the club is in danger of folding. Guaranteed if we did fold I'd only stay in contact with at most 10 of those people every few months or so. Maybe one or two I'd see on a more regular basis. As we both agree, it's a fact of life people drift apart and move on.

Sometimes I thing certain people feel like they have an image/ repuatation to uphold by saying 'yeah me and all my friends will/have stay in contact with each others'. Fair enough if that's true, but I personally tend to find that this isnt the case, and you're left with a small but special group of real friends.

[journalismus]

I definitely want to keep contact with my 4 closest friends, and I think I will. It is difficult though, in 3 out of 4 of these friendships I have always been the one to make the effort.

[llessur123]

Probably not until it was necessary when I came back home. That's life, if I go to the universities I intend to I'll be on a different landmass than them so it's unlikely that we will meet up often and talking on facebook gets a bit dry when you haven't seen someone for 10 months.

[lovers in japan]

Am in contact with everyone from my close-knit group of school friends (8 of us altogether), and 4 years on we still all make the effort

On the other hand, already don't see many of my uni 'friends'.

[snailsareslimy]

I'll probably stay in contact with most of my friends because we've nearly all applied for the same 2 universities as our firm or insurance, or both! So it'll be hard not to stay in contact when we're all in the same area, and any others who are going to college/taking a gap year instead will also be close by and so I'll stay in touch with them too!

[NiallC]

It was bad enough the transition from high school to college so I don't know how college to uni will be.

In high school I was a part of a very large group and I only talk to about 5 from high school weekly whilst there's another 2/3 who i speak to fortnightly. Out of those I think there's my two best friends I will definitely keep in contact if i go uni and maybe the one or two although that depends on how much effort they'll put in. When I go back for the holiday I think the group of about 10 of us from highschool will probably meet up in the pub, we don't really do that now as none of us are old enough to drink and there's me and one other person who can get served so that is probably the reason we don't see each other much now although that might change next year when we're 18.

From people I've met at college there's probably only 2/3 who I speak to weekly and I'll likely speak to them still and maybe meet them during the holidays. if I go uni but yeah.

So really when I go to uni there's the 2 best friends from high school and then one or two more if they make the effort as well, and then from college there's one or two, who I would like to stay in contact with. That's around 6 but chances are it'll only be my two best friends I will stay in contact with when I go to uni.

[such_a_lady]

Only my best friend.

[AGumby]

Hopefully because otherwise it would be likely that holidays would be boring and a lot of them I have none for 11+ years

[xoxAngel_Kxox]

I never actually went to visit any of my friends at uni, but most of us went locally and the only one who didn't came back a lot. I am still friends with my three best friends from college now we've all graduated, and I'm lucky to still have them.

[Horatio-]

I wouldn't plan to lose touch with friends. Why would anyone plan to disregard people they like?


Of course I may not actually keep in touch with everyone. People do generally drift apart if there isn't a strong bond. That being said when everyone comes home for the holidays etc they're not going to want to sit alone at home?

[TwirlGirl]

I've been at uni for 2 years now and I can honestly say that I very rarely talk to 'home' friends when i'm at uni. This really isn't a problem though, as my 'home' friends and I are close enough to revert back in to exactly how it was before, when we're all at home. All of us understand that life at uni is busy and we get so caught up in it that we rarely find the time to talk to others, let alone visit them. I've visited one friend, once, since i've been at uni and it just doesn't make any difference. We're all in the same boat, and when we're home things are great. Perfect situation

[Miss Trololol]

I use Facebook to keep in contact with most people since they live quite far away (some are in other countries) and they don't always have credit to reply to texts.

Xbox Live is another favorite to keep in touch. I party up with my two of my closest on there It's easier than messing about with Skype and having to buy new computers mics and such.

[tillytots]

I don't really have many friends at home as home changes so often as my parents move so much. I would say though in my pre uni life I had about 5 close friends, three of whom I'm still in touch with.

I know so many people at uni who had loads of friends back home and at the beginning, bought them to freshers,went back every weekend or had people over all the time and now they don't even talk to these people and dread going back home. It's weird how things change at uni

[jelly1000]

I'm still close friends with 4 friends from home, and slighty more distant friends with a couple of other people. Otherwise holidays would be torture.

[LaEstrella]

I plan to stay in contact with my best friend but that is it, I just want to break away and have a fresh start

[BeccaAnne94]

I do plan on keeping on contact with as many of my current friends as possible, but I guess realistically I'll only really be as close as I am now with a few of them.

I have family friends who I've known since I was born and we're really close so even if thinks don't work out with school friends I still have them

[(Online)]

I had one of my best friends come to the same university as me (total coincidence, we lost touch a bit by going to different sixth forms) which was nice, but other than her I've only really kept in contact with 2 of my friends from home. It's sad really and I do miss my old fiends, but they've all changed so much that I don't recognise them any more.

What's even worse is that I haven't made that many friends while being at university, so I'm pretty much left by myself.

[Chief Wiggum]

(Original post by tuesday91)
I didn't even realise that people didn't! I love having people at home to spend the holidays with, otherwise things could get very boring.

This. Basically everyone I know has stayed in contact with their pre-uni friends. I assumed everyone did tbh.