my hobby: watching other people's friendships

[belenen]

icon: "intrigued (a photo of a snow leopard with ears to the side and eyes intent, peering over a log)"I love social media especially LJ for the way it lets me watch the development of other relationships. Oftentimes if I am on the fence about someone, it will be their interaction with someone else that make me decide one way or the other about

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[webgirluk]

Me too. I'm really curious over the relationships of my friends and love observing people interactions on here or facebook. I can spend hours discussing and thinking about this. I love it when friends are open in this area and enjoy discussing their relationships.

[fragbert]

"...it will be their interaction with someone else that make me decide one way or the other about whether or not I should invest in them."

I do this too! I have quietly cut ties with people who've never been anything but nice to me, but have interacted negatively with others (both online and off), because I have found that once they're done abusing those others, it's going to be my turn eventually.

This kind of goes hand-in-hand with the observation that if someone is constantly deriding others while in your presence, chances are they're doing the same thing to you when you're not around.

[c_hrista]

True this. You can learn a lot about people by how they treat their peers.

[fragbert]

Yup, and even more by how they treat animals, the wait staff in a restaurant, and anyone in the service industry in general.

[c_hrista]

I love that you pointed this out because it's true. Also CHILDREN.

[meri_sielu]

I do a lot of this too, if someone I previously thought a lot of is unkind to a friend of mine then it can really impact my opinion of them and their standing with me.

[sidheblessed]

Me too! You learn much more about a person from how they treat others than from how they describe themselves.