How many of you actually are good friends with those on your friend list?

SquareBare is super chill and is on her way to becoming a bullet master.

Spooky is a calm, cool guy. 
Woolly is the friendliest cat I know.

I have several good friends from my friends list but of course, OldSpooky is my #1!🏴‍☠️

i love fake internet points 

but i know many of the people on my friends list.

Maybe one or two on my friends list would be considered real friends (at a distance), but there are a couple opponents I've played multiple times who I also feel a certain connection with and whom I've chatted with at some length...and feel I could be friends with.

I don't know anyone on chess.com other than as an internet "friend". 

Everyone is different, but do actually know a lot of my chess.com friends on here. Usually I meet someone one way or another and we message back and forth for a day or two or maybe even play some unrated chess together, but then most people get busy with other things and just stop messaging after that. I don't usually pursue it much after this, but every now and then people will chat a friendly message months later and we'll chat for a few days again or play a few games and then the cycle repeats. 

Just for reference, I have a little over 1,500 chess.com friends now, but I estimate maybe 300 of those I chat with at least once a month and maybe about 50 of those I chat with once every two weeks. People I interact with weekly or more often are more rare, but I'd estimate maybe about 10 people under that category. 

I don't mind though. I'm busy with my own chess and they probably are too, so it doesn't bother me if people don't answer back right away. I just figure they are busy or don't check their messages and I go about my own day. 

lol I'm the opposite. For my first year or so on chess.com I was SUPER selective and hardly accepted any friend requests. I'd decline almost all of them. Back then I felt like these people don't get to know the "person" me past surface level interactions, so why should I waste my time? Then it occurred to me that I don't need online friends to be held equal to in-person friends; when someone sends a friend request online, it could be something as simple as I helped them in a forum thread or they like my profile picture. I felt like maybe I should accept their friend requests if they want to send them and perhaps I was missing out on some online interactions by declining friends. Sure most won't chat much or help me out in any way, but maybe that is okay and maybe I could be one to help them out

My friends list just slowly grew over time as I've been on chess.com just over 5 years now: 

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/5-years-of-chess 

I don't regret my decision to accept friend requests more often. Now I accept nearly all of them and would need a reason NOT to accept a request from someone. Everyone is different though and if other people are more selective about their friend requests, that is okay too.

One. We actually met through golf. Not chess. It just so happens they also turned out to be a chess.com member. 

That's nice  

I'm an avid golfer myself. How long have you played golf for and what first got you interested in golf? Most golfers I know learn golf fairly early in life and simply stick with it ever since. Golf is a nice way to get to know people and spend some quality time enjoying the weather

I'm no exception then. I started playing as a teenager. l'm not as good as I could be, but I play for fun, not competition.  I like playing as a twosome and joining singles or other twosomes. It's a social sport so that's how I eventually ended up meeting someone who also happens to be a chess.com member. 

That is cool I began playing golf at a really young age because my father played golf for fun and I wanted to be like him. There are baby pictures of me playing with plastic clubs in the backyard at like age 2 or 3 and I have vivid memories of playing on the putting green of the local golf course with my father. 

In part because I began so young, I naturally got competitive and successful in golf. I've played in many golf tournaments, played on my school varsity golf team in high school and even represented my country in an international tournament resembling the World Olympics. I had fun with golf, but even in those competitive times, I never had dreams of becoming a professional golfer. I imagined that the level of dedication and seeking improvement would take away the joy of the game I had. 

My competitive golf days are likely behind me. By choice, I began pursuing other interests (such as chess) more often but I'll always be happy with where golf has lead me. For several years, I've been the Head Rules Official for a non-profit junior golf organization during the summers. 

I still play golf for enjoyment, but I find it more rewarding to be running things and helping others pursue the game than going through the competitive grind to become a professional (which some of my playing partners have become, so I know up-close what level of skill and dedication becoming professional takes). Golf (just like chess) is simply a hobby for me, but an entertaining hobby

Half of them are friends from real life that I've known for years, and the other half are players who I found interesting, played like 5 games with, and then friended.

It is likely that a number of "friends" on anyone's list are what I term Accidental Friends----that is, someone might be trying to click on another's profile but accidentally click on the Add Friend tab instead, then the other person might absentmindedly accept the Friend request...this has certainly happened in my case, although I do try to remember to send the person who Friend Requests me a quick message to ask if the request was accidental...

One person on my friends list, I've known for quite a while online and we are good friends.

Whenever I go to an otb tournament I friend everyone I play.

Everyone else I don't know at all.

im friends with a few people (irl) 

like @CTAGAX, @CTABAX, @Anthonyskaria-futureGM, @ChessProKing-TM, @JakeT2010,

@DavidTom5, and some others.

One person on my friends list is someone I am friends with IRL, some of the rest are people I'm actually friends with on chess.com, and the others are just completely random people who sent me a friend request for no apparent reason

I have never met him but he’s my friend when I sent a request when he was playing Hikaru and he accepted!