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my distinction is much simpler, people are either your friends or they are your foes, foes are people you do not want to be around and friends are people you enjoy being around, simple and easy to understand
if you want to go into the "deeper connection" between some friends then you enter the weird grey area of well how well do you really know them and how "real friend" they are if you wouldn't even be intimate with them
everyone has different metrics on how they define friends and what not but i think mine is easy to understand and easy to define with, there are friends i hangout with more but that's usually because they are either more active or i enjoy hanging out with them more than my other friends because we've hung out a lot already or their personality is a great match

guess you could say that only people you wouldn't mind being intimate with, who have great personality and who you prioritize hanging out with are your "real friends" but that would be a very short list and i don't see the reason to exclude straight people from "real friends" nor do i see a reason to exclude uninteresting people, people who have different timezones or people who i just don't prioritize as much for whatever reasons
to each their own though, sometimes it is nice to hangout with uninteresting people who just want to cuddle and who don't want to fuck you, not every interaction has to be exciting and engaging sometimes it is nice to just sit back and chill