@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:42

Establishing friendships at an older age.

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I went on Google and I Typed up mill bonding memes first hits I was getting was about, like, low key homosexuality. But when I Typed it up with women women bonding, what I got instead was all like, gossip stuff. It's like gossip and relationship sort of stuff. So I found that very interesting. And I want to know what's your guys take on male bonding for the men. And I guess for women bonding

Do you find this difficult? #friendship

@madymz
Mohamed Zaghloul
@madymz · 3:09
This number one, number two, I think that male bonds is totally different from bonds. Exactly as you mentioned of women. Stuff like gossip, like relationships is totally different. The friendship is totally different from men. There's something crazy. I mean, for example, I will give you an example if you didn't call your friend for something like days or weeks. And after that you have a call, you are greeting each other
@BeaumouManatee
Beaumou Manatee
@BeaumouManatee · 4:59

Sorry for the long response, I relate a lot

And when you do meet a cool woman, I think that we're kind of conditioned to be reserved and very polite and probably not fully ourselves. So we don't ask any impertinent questions. And as a result, we only gain a superficial understanding of the people around us. And so we get a bunch of friends that were like, hey, how are things going? Oh, they're going all right
@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:18

You like it old school huh? Lol @madymz

I've gained three male friends in the last 14 years of my life, and all three of these men have been online. I have associates that I'm cool with in person, but I just don't feel that much of a connection with them beyond the fact that we have to see each other in a structure all the time. But anyway, Mohamed, thank you so much for participating in the swell
@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:10

Lol, thank you @BeaumouManatee

Robin, thank you so much for participating in the Swell and you get where I'm coming from. But you are a woman. And although our genders are different, we have experiences that are much of the same. It gets to be a bit more difficult, and I never thought about that. A woman facing rejection that scares her. Now, of course, women are so used to rejecting men, which nowadays can get you shot. Last I heard in the news
@BeaumouManatee
Beaumou Manatee
@BeaumouManatee · 4:48

@FryedOreo What's a little blood between friends? :D

I like how you clarified about the blood not being literal because my lame self was totally thinking about that joke in my head, so that made me giggle. So that's cool that you have Instagram as sort of a middle ground to be able to share with your work friends without it. Broaching the more personal Facebook realm. I actually don't use Instagram, and I don't really have any of my colleagues on Facebook, but I've started to act as though I do
@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:53

Small talk 😨 @BeaumouManatee

So for me, getting past the small talk is going to happen anyway with somebody, even if I'm not as cool with them. But it's just do. They enjoy that talk, the deepness, the frequency, the randomness of the conversations. And when you said not a real connection that you would like on social media, I totally can understand that I definitely put some people in the social media zone
@BeaumouManatee
Beaumou Manatee
@BeaumouManatee · 0:59

@FryedOreo

I think that's what was the last time I took the test. But Anywho thanks again for such an interesting post and I wish you the best with your driving test next week. I hope it goes well and that you have a great night. Bye
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