I guess all of us would have received(and continue to receive) numerous forwards on what friendship is via mail/sms etc. Mails which contain flowers, babies, kids, animals and all sorts of things on a bedsheet background. And add to it some message like ‘Never wait for tomorrow. Tell today, at this moment, what your friend means to you yada yada’. One thing these friendly guys and girls dont realise is that many people have different mail clients. As a result, the message appears in a crazy format and all the pictures etc as a separate attachment and makes things tough to comprehend. With the introduction of orkut, this friendship menace has increased. ‘Want to be friends?’ is the mantra of the day. Infact sources say that our Maharashtra chief minister received a sms ‘Want to be friends?’ from the North Korean foreign minister, and this has terrorized the government. Thats why they are thinking of banning orkut. Ok. Let me not deviate further.
Almost all these friendship messages have a single purpose. To define what friendship is. It is like those late 90/early 2000 vijay movies (For people who dont follow tamil movies, Vijay is a tamil movie actor. He started his career acting in soft porn movies, and later moved on to preaching on the screen. He happens to be my school senior as well. Leave that. In every movie, he will define what love is. Love is not employment exchange, love is not business, love is selfless etc).
Taking things further, from my experience of having so many friends(No, not girlfriend or boyfriend. Just friends) let me try to help mankind in defining what true friendship or who a true friend is.
*True friendship is when you dont send sms like ‘Whats up?’, ‘Where are you?’ ‘Howz you?’ ‘Busy?’ etc to your friends, who are on national/international roaming.
*True friendship is when you wait with salt and knife for a friend, who is stealing mangoes from the tree
*True friendship is when someone hands you a packet of surf excel, after leaning on your shoulder with their oily head.
*True friend is someone who hands you a rupee coin, when you want to check your weight.
*True friend is someone who gifts you a claypot, that you can use while watching Surya/Asin, Vishal/Trisha movies (Eco friendly drool pot)
*True friend is someone who doesnt wake you up from sleep, to wish you Good Night!
*True friend is someone who doesnt talk to you in the restroom.
*True friend is someone who doesnt drag you to Karan johar movies
Yeah, so thats what friendship is. Want to make friends? 
on 15 Oct 2006 at 9:14 pm # SamY
he he … add to the list
*True friend is someone who wouldn’t give tickets to movies like sillunu oru kaadhal having seen it
*True friend would ask me for a treat but wud be willing to pay seeing the luk on my face when the bill comes in
on 15 Oct 2006 at 9:15 pm # priya
Some of the friendship forwards are good though many are sentimental pethals..
LOL at ur listing
on 16 Oct 2006 at 4:23 am # adiya
on 16 Oct 2006 at 5:52 am # nandhu
dont tell me u do all this for ur friends!!?
on 16 Oct 2006 at 6:12 am # Richa
wat abt the people who ask you on Orkut “wanna make friendship??” - arent they true friends??
…. i wont mind making friendship with you!!! 
on 16 Oct 2006 at 6:37 am # selvi
hmmmm… friendship verum alagana words le mattum illa…
True friend is someone who will tell you the truth (though they know it will hurt)
on 16 Oct 2006 at 9:00 am # sundar
at least you didnt ask for my credit card number !!
on 16 Oct 2006 at 10:07 am # Bindu
Paathu Prabhu, Indha post kooda, innoru friendship forward aagurathukku chance irrukku
on 16 Oct 2006 at 10:14 am # :-) smiley
hey ROTFL….
//True friendship is when you dont send sms like ‘Whats up?’, ‘Where are you?’ ‘Howz you?’ ‘Busy?’ etc to your friends, who are on national/international roaming//
a lot my friends do this and complain when i don reply
on 16 Oct 2006 at 10:27 am # randramble
Prabhu seems mildly inspired by his school senior…just kidding!
on 16 Oct 2006 at 11:24 am # Bhuvanesh
oh yeah…
what abt ‘true friends’ giving u free advice even when they know it doesnt do any good to u…
on 16 Oct 2006 at 1:37 pm # Shuba
True Friends in Orkut are the most bothersome.. They send in msg like “Hi I would like to make you a friend.. Please accept” Their photo is worse than they would give for passport application.. Or still I got this one from one person “Hi add me . I am your friend”
Anyway good read
on 16 Oct 2006 at 5:06 pm # zeno
I completely agree with bindu!!!!
vishal/Trisha???
vishal/reema sen illa!!!
on 16 Oct 2006 at 6:56 pm # visalakshi
pinniteenga!!! sooper post especially this one Infact sources say that our Maharashtra chief minister received a sms ‘Want to be friends?’ from the North Korean foreign minister
on 16 Oct 2006 at 8:57 pm # Thirumala Vasan GD
Neenga Balalok school la padicheenga ??? Ivalonaal theriyama poche…
on 17 Oct 2006 at 5:48 am # Bala.G
funny….
indha vijay panra comedyku alave illama poiduchu….waiting for another comedy movie
on 23 Oct 2006 at 10:52 pm # True Friend
True friend is one to become a friend of Ferrari and expect him to follow all he had listed, like paying for my treat, give me 1Re coin etc!
on 26 Oct 2006 at 7:15 pm # praveen
wait a minute…vijay…soft porn??
on 20 Nov 2006 at 2:00 pm # ramya
I think a true friend is he who visits your mom when you are somewhere really far away, cross continents and updates you that she is doing fine, her health is ok and nothing to worry. i think that’s the best thing a friend can do to you.