Keep With Kind

     What's in a friend? A lot of stuff. What's in a good friend? A whole lot more. Good friends are sometimes hard to come by. Want to know if your friend is a good one? Check out this short checklist, and see how many things you can say, "Yes! My friend is that way!" to. Count how many you say that to (each bullet is just one question, there are 11) and then check out the results at the bottom once you are done. Does your friend care about your feelings? When you are hurt (either by emotionally or physically) does your friend seem to care or even notice?  Is your friend someone you enjoy hanging out with? Do you see that friend often? Do they have (at least a few)  positive character traits? (post link) Does your friend use nice words on you and other people?  Is your friend honest? Do they tell you things and not keep many secrets? Is your friend fair to everyone? Do they share?  Are they helpful? Do they make you smile? Does your friend make you la...

     If you use an online gaming or social media platform, you know about being able to friend people online. Anybody can send you a request and you can choose to accept or decline. You may only friend people you know in real life, or you may be one of those people that friends everybody. But is it really that safe? And are you making the right decision? Read on for more.      I play Roblox, and I only accept friend requests from people I know in real life. Why? Because Roblox has a chatting feature, in which you can only chat with your friends. Once, I was playing a game and chatting with this nice girl--you can chat with anybody in-game, but outside the game, only friends--and she sent me a friend request. I thought it would be okay to accept it. We started chatting out-of-game and it started off normally, but then she started asking me personal questions. "How old are you?" she said. I answered, because I was younger and didn't know any better. She repli...