I'm a developer and crypto believer. I have been spending time on the Bitcointalk forum lately, and I want to make some good friends here.
All of my close circle friends consider crypto as scams, and I cannot convince them at all. They all bought some meme coins and lost, or have heard stories of people getting wrecked on NFT coins, so they blame Bitcoin for all the scams. When I argue, "Why don't you buy Bitcoin?" they say it's not profitable. When I counter back with, "If you had bought $6k BTC last year, it would now be around $10k instead you chose some meme coin that online gurus talk about, and now you blame Bitcoin," they still don’t listen. Nowadays, I’ve started to lose friends over these arguments, and I'm not good online Instagram or Discord either.
You don't need to force other people to buy bitcoin, or change how they look at it, you need to focus on yourself and show them you are right at end, its pointless to argue since if people are close minded they will never change, besides they have their own decision and forcing them to do what you want over them is not good idea, be friends with them, and let them decided what they want in life, no need to stress things good luck.