How do we make friends? Some people seem to find it easy. They have lots of friends. Other people seem to find it difficult. Why? What is the secret of making friends? First, we must understand the difference between friends and acquaintances. Acquaintances are people we know. We know them from the clubs we go to, from the places where we work or from our local neighbourhood. We meet them around in the high school playground and we say’ hello, how are you?’However, friends are people we like a lot. Perhaps we don’t like everything about them, but we feel positive about most of their characteristics.