Criticised for telling a guy I found him attractive

[Gobacktopartycity1]

According to friends I should never have done this. After knowing a guy for around 2 months, getting on really well and so on I told him that I felt attracted to him and was unsure if was anything further. It wasn't for whatever reason, but at least I knew where I stood.
2 friends are now saying I scared him off, that I should have let it develop naturally. I actually feel really stupid now, they're saying I put him off.
As I say we've been talking and hanging out for a couple of months. It's pretty much put me off with other men now in the future.

If he liked you and you told him that you like him, he'd be after you like a shot. No man will turn down a woman they fancy.

The only way in which your friends could have sort of been right is if he half liked you and fancied a drunken shag. And it doesn't sound like you wanted that from him.

Ignore them. Men are very simple in this respect.