A Perplexing Situation
By stephenlm
@stephenlm (12)
United States
August 11, 2007 1:04pm CST
Let's say that you discover a bug on one of the famous social websites - maybe it's Friendster, maybe it's MySpace, maybe it's Livejournal, or maybe it's something else.
Now let's say that this bug allows you to discover something about a person that you've known for many years and this discovery suggests, rather strongly, that you're not the close friends that you were lead to believe.
What do you do?
A.) Confront them
B.) Decide that life has more pressing concerns, and forget about it
C.) Take a middle road and not bring it up, but stop treating the person as though they're a part of your inner circle of friends.
This is the situation that I find myself in.
This post is deliberately kept vague. My apologies but I won't go into any more detail.
~Steph
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@cassidy22 (2974)
• United States
12 Aug 07
Without much more detail... I guess my first instinct would be to take C.
It depends though, if I thought this was one of my BESTEST BESTEST friends on the whole world... and our friendship was deceptive, or something, I might confront them, cautiously. But if it seemed as if the friendship was a joke to THEM, I'd probably get a little cold and back off. Best of luck with this one!
@stephenlm (12)
• United States
12 Aug 07
Hello Cas. Thanks for the response.
So far that's what I've been doing. It's a slow process to back off emotionally from a person with who you have some emotional investment, but not hearing from them for a few days has helped this process.
I think that confronting them with the issue would tear apart what there -is-, and I don't know yet if I want to do that.
G'day over there,
-Steph
