Premanand Maharaj Ji
How do I choose good friends?
Test the friendship: who influences whom?
Making friends is not wrong, but if a friend's bad conduct affects you and he will not accept good conduct, the friendship should be left. Wherever you feel you will slip, make distance.
If the influence of our good conduct falls on our friends, then the friendship stays. If the influence of their bad conduct falls on us, we should leave them.