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.
Anyone who lives in a country where a good population of their citizens are not knowledgeable about Bitcoin will understand what you are saying. I live in such country and I have heard countless times people insinuating that Bitcoin is a scam and that I might be dealing with scam too. There is no need convincing anyone to see Bitcoin the way you see it. Do your thing and let bitcointalk be your crypto family. If you focus here, you would see that you don't really need opinions from your friends.