Keeping secrets for a friend is okay, as long as it is not a life and death secret that will cause harm to them or someone else. Once you both set the boundaries of what is shared before telling of the secret, to keep the trust and loyalty among you. Get an understanding of why they want the secret hidden because what you don't want is anything on your conscious or risk of any kind. Do you think it's okay to keep a friends secret?

It's okay to keep secrets from friends because you cannot totally trust them 100%. There are certain things you don't discuss with your friends. It’s just like trying to be careful and avoiding betrayal at the same time.

I feel like friends are still individual people with there own individual problems and lives. Therefore we share what we care to share that is why we set healthy boundaries to keep the relationship honest and remain loyal in those aspects. There's going to be things we share and thing we want, not because of trust but because some things as individuals we can't handle. I don't feel it would be classified as keeping a secret if it confidential information I only share with God or my parents who I know without a doubt will be able to handle my personal situations. So it's not such a thing as keeping secrets from a friend it is keeping our friendship safe and less burden with each other's personal situations that they might not be able to handle with care from trying to care to much. If that makes sense?

I don’t keep secrets from my friends as I consider that a form of betrayal and disloyalty. I basically tell my friends everything. After all, they are my friends.

I think it's okay to keep secrets for a friend as long as they do not harm anyone. Obviously, if a friend was keeping a secret that would physically hurt or could potentially physically hurt someone I would say something.

In the past I had an acquaintance that had confided in me that they were going to have someone jumped, I was honest with them and told them that I had to let the other person know because it isn't okay to get people jumped. Turned out it was the right thing to do. They were planning on having the person stabbed and could have potentially killed the person but because I had said something about it and I had notified the police and the person that was to get jumped they were able to stop the jumping from happening and arrest the people that were involved.

I'm all for keeping secrets and not saying anything if it is harmless. If it's not harmless than you best believe I'm going to say and do something about it. I've lost "friends" over it, and I put them in quotes because they weren't obviously real or good friends.

I've known people who can't keep secrets and I'll be honest it can be a little frustrating and annoying, especially when trying to set up a surprise party or something good for someone. It's always good to have people around who you can trust and confide in.

Yeah I think it's fine as long as the secrets aren't meant to do harm to your friends. Everyone has secrets, and they're entitled to keeping them to themselves or if they wish to share with others that's fine too.