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How Are Friends Made?

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    Teddy Xinyuan Chen
    Twitter

Theories:

  1. Repetitive unplanned interaction / revolving door theory
    • you meet and interact with this person 10 times, and you become friends.
    • it doesn't have to be unplanned if you really want to befriend this person
  2. My identification theory
    • you can't be friends with someone you don't identify with. you may zoom in to their flaws to confirm that your decision of not friending him.
    • and you need to be somewhat curious about this person
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