Dude, if you want to influence your friend about cryptos, choose muh better coin, I couldn't say that doge is not good, but there's a lot of coin/token in the market that has a high potential and offered variety of innovations, we all know doge is a piece of ****t and your friend could burn out early by investing on this coin.
Agree, lots of good altcoins and enough quality to convince and introduce friends to join this world, dogecoin seems to be being manipulated too much, introducing them to this project may turn them victim, we can also see the number of people buying dogecoin at $0.5 recently, they're crying a lot, this is not the real and deserved value that dogecoin should have. Some relatively good suggestions might be BNB, ethereum, the technology and opportunities they bring are convincing to newbies, dogecoin is only for the senior here.