Furry Cliques
A clique is an exclusive group of people who share interests, views, purposes, patterns of behavior, or ethnicity. A clique as a reference group can be either normative or comparative. Membership in a clique is often, but not necessarily, exclusive, and qualifications for membership may be social or essential to the nature of the clique. The term
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Especially with the fact that people have feet and a mouth...
If you want to meet someone, you have to do that yourself... how do you think you met those people yourself? Yes, by doing that very same thing.
I don't think I've gotten to know the people I know now, through stalking them, running after them and laughing at their jokes even though I don't get them... I've befriended them because I was myself and they felt a connection and I felt that too.
I've had people/friends come up to me and asked me if they could hang around me at cons, so they could feel like part of the group. I told them then, and I will tell them now, that if you wish to be part of conversations or if you would like to meet some of my friends or people I hang around with... to just walk up to someone and start a conversation if they are free to have one.
I've introduced people to other people, who are then happy to meet them and the person that wanted to be introduced walks off after an eerie quiet spell as those people apparently had no idea what to say after they had passed the introduction point. That left me with a facepalm feeling and wanted to whistle and walk away from the scene.
If you really want to meet someone, talk to someone or befriend someone.. it takes effort! Effort you have to take yourself. You can get a little boost or help from your own mutual friends, but all in all.. it comes down to doing it yourself.
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