I've never really had to end a friend relationship by any means; I believe that girls tend to get into more bitter fights and are more likely to end friendships then with men. I've pretty much been on good terms with all my friends, and if there ever is a problem that I have with a friend, we get it out of our system. Sometimes that involves bringing it up and talking it out, other times it means getting into a drunken fistfight at 3:00am over some shoes or something, I can't remember exactly. But in either case, us men tend to put it in the past and move forward with our lives. I don't really talk being my friends' backs, and neither do they. If there are people that I meet that might have a tendency to do that, then they aren't my friend, they're just shady immature kids. There have been times where I've grown apart from my friends, and there have been times where I have grown apart from my friends intentionally as well, though those cases involved my former friends getting into trouble with drugs, vandalism, graffiti, etc and I chose not to be a part of that, so I slowly stopped hanging out with them.

Even though people say online is different, I really don't seem to believe that. People are still people, offline or online. The friendships that I have with people I've met online are very real, and I believe my friends that I have online care about me as I do them in the same manner. After all, I've travelled in a car for over 8 hours just to stay at my friend/teammate's house, who happened to be a kid my age that I've met over xbox live. It was a very fun experience, and if the trip wasn't so long, I'd be hanging out with Seth from Kansas pretty much any and every weekend, lol. Anyways, the point is that if you are really making friends with people who backstab others and stuff, are you sure they consider you the same way? If that happened to me, then I don't think I was ever friends with that person in the first place. If it started happening with one of my friends that I have right now, then it would be evident that the two of us were growing apart, but that doesn't mean that the friendship needs to be ended. I think people need to realize that it is immature to burn bridges, because everyone changes and grows at different rates, and sometimes people end up changing to conflict with each other, but there is no need to throw away friendship and memories because of people not getting along like they used to.