Treat people like you’d like to be treated.
Don’t be too cheap, picky, or critical.
But overall just be yourself and if they don’t like you then too bad for them. If you want to put on a fake personality to make friends then so be it, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Enh. Some of us have to kinda fake it to be social. I don’t mean social in a kiss-ass, get-something-out-of-it way, I mean just to be polite company. I have thrown parties at my own house and then had to leave because I was just tired of being around people, lol. I have a low threshold for being ‘social’, but it’s well worth it to fake it sometimes. I mean, most people are nice; I don’t need to make them feel badly just because I’d rather be off doing something by myself.
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I faked it a little too well at MrTao’s high school reunion, lol. I knew he was going to be uncomfortable, but that he wanted to go. I’d probably be in the same boat as him, if the situation was reversed, so I dressed real nice and made myself be social. I was talking with everyone, dragged him out to the dance floor, got people to come say hi to him that I had never met before. (It’s a small town, so it was a little easier in that I knew several people there from work.) MrTao thought I was being so outgoing because I’d had a couple of drinks; they certainly didn’t hurt, but it was 99 percent attitude for me. So, it can be faked. And it’s often worth it. 