Friends and friendship

Is it easy to make friend. Is friendship more important then the money?
Now a days it has become very risky to make the friendship with any unknown person as first of all one does not what he has in the mind to make the friendship with. People now a day are become so business minded that under the name of friendship they pulled or forced the other into unwanted business. No one knows what activities they are doing or involved into. So it becomes dangerous to get introduced to any unknown person. With such a situation everyone have become very cautious to make the friendship even with the new person if comes to stay in ones colony.
In olden day people use to die or talk great about their friendship, and even today there are such stories being told or published. But now a day with the change in generation people think twice to be a friend of any one, keep aside the friendship.