"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company" 

~George Washington~ 

~ Mixing with the wrong kind of people can lead you to a bad path. In order to choose from right and wrong you have to let the people that have a bad influence on you go before you get in trouble. Letting other people control you and you do not defend for yourself  it's like giving them the right to make a fool of you. You should only associate with people who are good, that they don't force you to do anything by force, friends that don't control you. It's either you stay by yourself where you know you won't be causing any harm to yourself or to others or would be in a bad situation. Learn to have a mind of your own, not the same as others. You doing things just to fit in, says that you are not yourself, you are pretending to be someone that you are not. Being the same as the others could leave you a bad view from other people, and they wouldn't like having a friend that does not do things differently.