The advantages of Friendship are you can be close to someone and they can really help you in tough situations and they understand you and if there a great friend then they'll always be there for you. The Disadvantages are they could move away and thats always heart breaking, they could potentially harm you emotionally, they might not be who you think they are, or you could just grow apart from them. I personally think that friendship is a good thing as long as its a 50/50 deal. You don't want them to be exerting 30% on trying to be friends and your exerting 70%. I have personally been through that and I just distanced myself from that and now were more like mutual friends. As long as your great friends with the person and you have fun with them everything should be fine, but every once in a while you might hit a rough patch and just think "This too shall pass." thats a motto I live by.
