Why do I want to be superficially likable? Because I meet many people for only brief periods of time; not enough for them to learn how deep and interesting I ma

Why do I want to be superficially likable? Because I meet many people for only brief periods of time; not enough for them to learn how deep and interesting I may be. At the same time, I don't want them to think that I'm boring, or that I didn't like them. Maybe we'll meet again in future. Being superficially likable is social lubricant. I agree you can't forge deep friendships on the basis of anything other than mutual compatibility, and trying to fake that is doomed to failure. But casual friendships are open to hacking, and that's what the advice in this article is about. Casual friendships can also be the starting point for deeper ones, so messing them up is probably inadvisable.