I agree with the levels of friends.
I found it hard to use the word friend, since I don’t know if I can call people that. The level thing with the adding from Stormthunder is pretty good. But I don’t think in those levels in practice. It’s just theoretical.
My best friend isn’t even a level 3 person. There are a lot of things she doesn’t know about me, and there are a lot of things I don’t know about her too. But I know she would be there if I got a problem or something. I know I can trust her, but still I can’t tell her everything about me. I just don’t dare, don’t want to or something else. The higher someone is on “the ladder” it’s harder to tell personal things. Maybe if they’re (almost) on top of it it isn’t anymore. But it can be sometimes. It might not sound logical on first sight. But when you think more of it, it will be logical. I can’t really explain sorry.
If I would say a friend is someone who knows who you are, I think nobody could ever become my friend. My name on msn once was: “You don’t know who I am”. And my friend asked: “Do you know it yourself?” And I told her I didn’t know myself. There are a lot of things about me I haven’t figured it out. But if you don’t know the other person completely you can still be friends, even good ones.
I can talk with my best friend without even really talking. A girl, I think I consider her as a friend too, founds that very annoying. I tend to talk to her like that too sometimes. When I talk with my best friend it goes sometimes like this.
”You know that thing with those thingies should have those other things. You know what I mean.”
And she understands that. Sometimes we’re a bit telepathic, just because you know each other good. (But I’m telepathic with some other people too, who I don’t know that well)
About helping people, I would help someone who I consider as a friend level 1 too or even if they’re not a friend. But if you’re not a friend you don’t tend to tell it.
You can be yourself with you’re friend, but who am I? But that’s another question I won’t go into that (right now)
I do think you can consider internet people friends. There is someone I think I can consider him as a friend. I did see him in real life some times but not that much and I met him on the internet
A friend is not describable in words for me, it’s a feeling I got with some people. And I don’t’have that many friends. Maybe I even got only one real friend.