is it a must to have a lot of friend to avoid being bullied

in my personal experience yes

I think it is a must we have few friends at least. Usually, the bully doesn't attack alone, he/she will attack in a group. Unless you really brave & confident to fight them.

Its harder to bully people who have friends. Bullying is rarely 1 vs 1. Its usually 1 vs group because 1 person has harder time to defend themselves meanwhile a support group (friends) will give backup and bully wont get the satisfaction

Idk, I never really had many friends but people would barely bully me only once did I get bullied and it was because of my race, but other than that, nobody tried to bully me but I think it’s bcuz I’m taller than a lot of girls and boys and I think bullies are mostly midgets so I guess they leave me alone bcuz I could stomp on them

from my pov, yes

i touched on this on one of my previous posts. when a kid doesn't have much friends, there is less people to defend them or stand up for them. therefore, bullies have a easier time bullying them.

generally speaking, yes. If your group of friends are mid-popular or more liked then it’s unlikely that you’ll get bullied. If you’re part of the “weird kids”, then your whole group can be verbally bullied or be seen as inferior. I’ve never been bullied myself, but i’ve seen it happen to others. So you would be safer if you had more people to defend you, but again, it depends on how ballsy the bully is or how far they’re willing to go.

I'm not sure it's a must but having friends generally helps with not being perceived as weird. If you don't have many friends it tends to make people think that there's something a little off about you, which can be the reason for bullying to start in the first place.

You can of course have lots of friends and still become a target for some other reason, but I do think it significantly reduces the risk. Bullies rarely choose victims who might end up winning the fight.

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WHAT IF YOUR FRIEND DOES NOT care abt u

are they a friend at the first place then

It makes sense as bullies are usually cowards who wanna abuse their own strengths like being bigger/stronger, popular, have a group of other bullies, or have rich/influential parents. They wanna pick on someone who won't fight back and take whatever they dish out on their victims. If they pick on someone stronger mentally or physically or with friends/influence, they would suffer immediate consequences.

Picking on someone with lot of friends is counterproductive for bullies unless they have enough power to take down everyone in that group. This would be basically a gang/faction war.

I had a case where a new kid was acting as a bully in the church. I was one of the targets as I was new there too. I retaliated when he crossed the line, so he had to move to a different target. Dunno why he was such a stupid bully. Thinking about it, I wonder why. Anyway, the new target had lot of friends, so it backfired big as he became isolated by the other kids and the teens who took care of use would keep an eye on him. He eventually quit the church.

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is there a need to fight unless if they destroyed your life

Well, I think we need to fight at least. They will keep bullying you after they test the 1st time at you and find that you will not fight back. They will keep coming for you since they assume you an easy target