Matt's advice column

I have this friend. Well, we USED to be best friends. However, throughout a couple years, I've kind of matured a bit and learned a lot and what not. She hasn't. So we're growing apart. The thing is, she is and always has been copying me. When we first met, she made friends with all of my friends. She got her hair dyed and cut to match mine, she was interested in all the guys I was, she called us "twins" all the time, and she basically did ALL the same stuff as me ALL the time. Yeah, yeah I know it's supposed to be the highest form of flattery, but to me, it's the highest form of annoyance. I don't know why I put up with it for as long as I have. Well, over Christmas I got a brand new phone which I had been waiting FOREVER for. It was so cool because it was SUPER expensive so no one around where I live had it. Then I came in to school today and she has the EXACT same phone as me. Same model, same color! This seriously struck something in me. It's like she's trying to be me and it's majorly creepy and disturbing. I know we're growing apart, but I don't want her to take MY unique qualities that she adapted to with her. They aren't her, they're me :( I just don't know...how do I get her to stop? And possibly completely distance myself from her? I just don't have time to worry about silly friend issues when I've got my school work and family issues to deal with :( thanks

Buying a super expensive phone is a unique quality?

lolz

EDIT:

That is advice. It's a comment on your interpretation of uniqueness and the rolls wealth and being special via circumstance have for you. But thanks for not giving me a 1.

EDIT Empire Strikes Back:

It should be helpful, otherwise you're not having an open mind with yourself. You have a larger, more personal problem that some idiot friend copying you. That's what I think.

EDIT Return Of The Jedi:

Your comment about your super expensive phone was just so ridiculous that it defined your entire question. And when giving advice, why should I be confined to the actual question? If someone in an abusive relationship came up to you and asked for advice on making burritos, would you really just leave it at that? People like claiming I "put everyone down" because it makes them feel better. They don't like thinking that there was a defining element about them that made them subject to "ridicule" (eye of the beholder; what can be seen as ridicule I see as extra-curricular advice giving). Go through my column, you'll see the ratio of put-downs to actual question addressing advice. On a side note, you have a nice voice in your writing.

EDIT I'm out of original Star Wars movies:

"Your answers are usually good, but sometimes in a mocking manner and seem to be more for your own enjoyment then for the actual well being of the asker." Absolutely. In no way am I here for the questioner, this is 100 percent for my own amusement. If I can actually help someone, lovely. If I can't, tough. Been that way since I was 13 on this site, and it'll always be that way.