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Re:The Science of Making Friends by stegosaurus on Sunday April 24, 2016 @03:29PM (#11560975)
I'm struggling to figure out OP's context (not sure why they're not just saying it) but one thing I can come up with is restraining orders.

It doesn't seem too outrageous to me that the use case of 'have been in a neighbourhood for a while and already have enemies' is just outside of the scope of the program, though. It has far more utility for people who have just moved to a new town and have no contacts at all.

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Re:The Science of Making Friends by stonecraftwolf on Sunday April 24, 2016 @04:10PM (#11561147)
I witnessed an incident of domestic violence involving the other person in my group. I don't want to go into more detail than that for reasons that should be obvious.

I disagree with your limited use case. IME there are many stages of life where you might need to refresh or replenish your friend group. Aside from moving to a new place, people complain about the difficulty of making friends after college, when their friends get married or have kids, if they're stuck in a job without peers, after a divorce, etc etc etc.

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