Topic: Do You Discuss Money With Friends? - page 7. (Read 1334 times)

Oh hell no! I never discuss my own money related matters with my friends. Same goes for my relatives as well. Evil eye is real. You won't understand it unless you have experienced it. So it's better not to speak money to anyone.

We talk about stock market investing and general economy related matters but when it comes to my money and investment, it's a big no no! Especially, be very careful about your crypto holding. Even my financial planner doesn't know about it!

I'm not comfortable discussing my finances with my friends, and I'm also not keen on asking them about their finances. There will be a point where one of us will be discriminated against or feel that one is better than the other. They can open their finances to me, but I have a reservation when it comes to mine. I just don't want comparison between friends; there are many things to talk about besides money.
The last time I talked about it with a friend, we ended the conversation with him asking me to lend him; I have no  choice but to give in.

Yes, we talk about many things with closest friends, not just talk about crypto holdings but we never ask what coins we have because that is our private. But when we talk about other things such as business, job, or even families, we can feel comfortable because they are my closest friends who will help us if we have a problem.

We are comfortable to share many things with closest friends because they will be beside us and give help and that is not just for money but other things. It is nice to have such friends who will always listen to us and vice versa.

Depends on the goal and the friends I met.

For sure I will not talk about crypto, specially about my investment.

If I met someone related with my jobs, I will talk about money, because I want to know if I got paid lower or higher than the job market. Even we can search how much our position get paid, but the reality sometimes different.

But, if I met my old friends, close friends etc that not related anything to my jobs, I will not talk about money.

Just let you know, there's a different between friends without money oriented and friends with money oriented, you can't mix both of them.

Friends are in different categories, if it a friend that we belong to the same business line, then why not I will be free to discuss my profits and new ideas with the person this way we have some knowledge to share together that can help the both of our businesses, but if you talking about cryptocurrency holdings, then I will say no way, I can still discuss trading topics with few co trading friends, but my personal investment that one is for my own knowledge and privacy, I am not free to discuss that with any friends.

Main reason I don't discuss such money topics:

1: the nature of my environment, most of my offline friends that I can have money discussion with are not from my line of business, and some of them could perceive such discussion as a way of showing off how much money you have made, and this could give rise to jealousy and hatred most especially on most uneducated setting or mixture of uneducated and educated forks, so the way they covey themselves differs.

2: when it comes to cryptocurrency, privacy is always advised and for that we have to practice high privacy in other to safeguard ourselves, and keeping off troubles, but then there is always that sure friend that you can discuss anything with, and they don't possibly have to do your own kind of business or even leave around your environments.

Well, I’ve given them some ideas, but I don’t share the numbers. I know they’re aware I’ve made some profit in crypto since my lifestyle has changed, but I also understand the risk of sharing sensitive information, especially about my holdings. When it comes to money, you can’t trust everyone, even your closest friends, as you never know, and that's how you prevent bad things from happening.

it depends on how close i am to the person as well as what kind of a person i take him to be be. there are some kind of friends that i have that the highest we can talk of is academic or sports related topic and even when we want to talk about finance, it doesn't have to go above the surface probably because we are just casual friends and have not gotten all that close.

outside of that, when it comes to my real friend, i believe that it is only normal he gets to know a lot about my finance and what i do to earn a living. if someone you call your friend don't have the slightest knowledge about your finance, then the person is actually not your friend in the first place. of course there is always going to be some form of limitation most especially as regard how much i have saved or some things i have invested into. as much as you want to be open to your friend and expect them to remain open to you, there are things you should not bother knowing about them and there are things you should keep to yourself to help protect yourself. the person that is your friend today can in the next year turn out to become an enemy, it is not that you are expecting the worse but safety demands that you dont make yourself too susceptible to being taken advantage of.

We don't discuss our crypto holdings with friends, do you talk about money as an alternative instead? What I mean is like, talk about what you are doing, your side hustles and how much you're making from it. Is this something you and your friends are open about, or do you typically stick to safer topics like sports and politics? If you don't discuss money, why not? And if you do, how much are you comfortable sharing?"