• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Maybe you don’t like the wording, but everyone does this. Unless you know if someone will be a close friend the moment you lay eyes on them, or are friends with literally everyone you’ve spent time with.

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        Yes everyone does it naturally and mostly subconsciously over time as they get to know people. You’ve got to be a real psycho to be running through a checklist you’ve crowd sourced online. Wtf is this thread. Ugh reddit refugees lmao.

        • Fuckass [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          Well, many people have hard line stances for some things so they’re instantly aware of someone crossed the line. I’m acquaintances with some people who I would normally think are ghouls because if we avoid certain topics, we’re fine.

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        At least for me, there’s never really any conscious stage of vetting people. It’s just a long process of repeated interactions, and eventually some of them become friends and others don’t. There’s no grand registrar of friendship that I file people into for processing.

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          Then it’s unconscious. Hopefully the criteria are ones you’d agree with if they were conscious.