For example, what is known as a work friend or class friend is also known as an acquaintance. Work friends are those friends who are work friends only because they met at work or simply because they only see each other at work. The same goes for a classmate; however, unlike a work friend, a class friend is primarily a person who helps the other person only if the other person missed class or forgot their homework. Furthermore, acquaintances may have things in common and may have nothing in common. Although acquaintances are not as special as best friends. Having acquaintances is a good thing. Acquaintances are good because they offer a different kind of relationship that the best friend and social friend can't offer, and that's a different point of view. It's true that some best friends and social friends can sometimes have different points of view, but not as much as two people who think completely differently from each other. Acquaintances are also great for wasting time, and this is one of the reasons why most people have acquaintances at work or in the office.