I’m a sophomore in college, and I recently realized that I’ve surrounded myself with some terrible people. My current friend group is really draining. One of them in particular considers me his “best friend” but I hate him the most, he treats me and everyone around him like s***, but everyone kisses his ass. I really wanna make a new group of friends, but I don’t know how to go about it, especially during a pandemic. Any advice is appreciated

what exactly do you not like about them?

It’s one of those male friend groups where it feels like we are always in “competition” if you know what I mean. They always put eachother down instead of uplifting, it’s like a constant d*** swinging contest or some s***. We’ve had some great times and they’ve done a lot of s*** for me but I feel like they’ve had a net negative impact on my mental health

Went through that towards the end of high school, found a new friend group where everyone chill & wanna see each other succeed

Sound like you maturing and falling out with your friends tbh. Go to the library or the gym it’s usually chill people there on campus.

Trust your instincts

use them for your own benefit until you find a new friend group and then dump them

Low-key in the same situation but I'm not in college or anything and I really don't like the ppl I work with either and have no idea what to do tbh

Damn this hit close to home lmao

You legit have good amount of time to make entire new friend group upperclassman years. 2 years go by quicker but can meet more dope people

This is what I desire. I feel like my “best friend” secretly wants the worst for me, or feels like he’s in competition with me for some reason

That’s what I was thinking of doing, but using people sounds so psychopathic I don’t know if I could do it. And hanging with them definitely offers many opportunities

I need some advice making friends too it's my first year in college and s*** is just boring af I feel like my friend group from hs was on that over competitive s*** op mentioned. None of them will hang with me now bc i got a better scholarship than them

Eventually stop answering their texts until one day you see one of them at a party and they try to fight you like a jealous ex-girlfriend...

I'm out here paying resale for foam runners cause i have no friends to go to florida with

That’s crazy, my HS friend group is the exact opposite of my college one, we lift eachother up for the most part.

I especially feel bad for college freshman at the moment, COVID has made making new connections like that incredibly difficult

How do I go about it tho? I meet hella new people through my current group, idk if I can just cut them off

Ghost them niggas please, s*** will explode if u don’t

find u some real friends man! stay away from the fake cornballs

I got a friend like that, but it’s not like that all the time and we do uplift each other a lot more than we go in on each other. It seems like that’s all y’all do so please ghost them niggas, they too old to change that s***

Put yourself out there more, be more willing to ask someone for their number if u just had a good first conversation with them to take it further than just seeing them in class or something

I’ve been feeling like it’s only a matter of time before it gets physical, I’ve been blowing up at them niggas more than I ever have before. At the same time they have so much to offer me, and have elevated me socially in a huge way. I’m so conflicted

Fr tho that competition s*** in friend groups is so strange to me. Niggas would do it to me so much I’d find myself doing it back to them and it makes me even more mad at them that they’d make me behave like them lmao

S*** could all be so simple but some folks r just weird

Nun wrong with fighting with ur friends, it’s one way to solve a problem

Brothers fight all the time and it makes their bond stronger. Could f*** up the friendship or it could strengthen it, if you feel disrespected and are tired of it do ur thing