Don't confuse friendship with image.
If we pick people to connect with based on how other people will see us, we are not living in truth. Civility, Friendship and Love are based in the heart, not on appearances. When we are afraid to be seen with someone, then we are either surrounded by false, image obsessed people, and we have grown to be accustomed to living in fear of their judgment, or we are that way ourselves, creating "friendships" based not in good will and true bonds, but in what we will get out of them.