A better question might be why you feel you need them. Or why it's bad to scare them away, if you were just telling the truth.

[Brought to you by resident cynic Daria. And oh, yeah, she has no friends. Well, alright, she has Jane, and a few others; so it's not that she's saying friends are bad. The question just makes her think of the empty-headed types back in high school that thought popularity was everything.

It's probably not at all what he meant.]