Is it normal that when i move to a new place, i drop all contact with friends?

It takes a little effort to keep in touch once you move. A LITTLE. Really. It's easy. Facebook, twitter, skype, texting, phone calls....... If you're really bothered by it then try to keep in touch with people, stop just falling off the face of the Earth.

You at least need to make an effort!? I mean.. I hardly do much to keep in touch with my friends from when i lived in America. Now I have lived in Europe for 7 years and haven't seen them since. But we do write to each other once in a while, and I still feel like some of them are some of my best friends. :)

Make a better effort! It's worth it.

there's really no excuse for this as we are living in an age of communication. I'm kinda like this for different reasons though. I am hell loyal to people and sentimental and keep in touch, but at times I purposely don't, to see if people will keep in touch with me. Otherwise its all one way traffic and that's no way to base a friendship. So at times I will test people like that.

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I guess it's normal or at least it's become the norm for me. I'm also suffering from depression and anxiety. I guess I'm scared of being judged for what I've become.

I do this, but it never bothers me like you describe. I knew a person for over ten years, then one morning I woke up and never spoke to them again.

I don't understand the attachment people have to friends, I have it with girlfriends but that's because they sleep with me.

So why friends? What is their use that I'm not ment to be able to live without, because I sure haven't noticed what it is.

Goddamn expendable meat puppets.

I do this too... so there are only two friends I keep... and they are the ones that understand that I occasionally disappear and will eventually resurface somewhere in the world and contact them via whatever is available (internet or written mail). When I see my friends, we just pick up right where we left off - never missing a beat.

I'm like that, at first i try to keep contact but over time i forget about them and focus on my new life. It makes me sad that a great friendship is lost but i also don't see a point in friendship with someone i'll most likely never see again.

Unfortunately it is NOT that uncommon of a problem. I do the same thing. The good news is these days there's facebook, and while I'm not a big facebook fan, every once in a while I'll remember someone I used to know well but have lost contact with and I can usually find them on there and get back in touch!
But also remember that moving is a big change and you are going to meet new people. Can you imagine how chaotic your life would become if you we always in contact with everyone you ever met and liked?
So give yourself a break, and do your best to get ahold of the people that you love and miss the most! :)

Unfortunately, I do the same thing. I've lost two best friends from my childhood this way. I've really no advice to give to you; it just seems to happen not out of a conscious choice or anything.

Then why not text them?