1) what type of music do you listen to? metal, grindcore, shoegaze, classical, drone, ambient, trip-hop mostly, but a lot of artists that defy genre such as The Gathering. I try not to have in my head that I prefer some genres to others as I'll give anything a go, submissions I get for reviews from my site range from alternative hip-hop, to freely improvized Classical Indian/Jazz to modern classical to harsh noise to death metal and more. Give it all a go, like a lot of it.
2) do your friends have similar music taste? Some do, some don't, doesn't really matter
3) is rock music popular among your friends? Again, among some, not among others
4) do you connect through music with your friends ? Those who are interested a lot in music I'll share things with regardless of genre becayse those are openminded people, those who aren't, and will only listen to chart music and don't like to anything remotely new, no
5) how old are you? Are you currently working or studying? 22, working full time while spending most of my free time either listening to music, writing about music at swirlsofnoise.com, or going to see music be made.