It's always interesting(read: painful) to see HN comments on articles that relate more to emotion than cold-hard-logic. Humans are Humans, not machines that ob

It's always interesting(read: painful) to see HN comments on articles that relate more to emotion than cold-hard-logic. Humans are Humans, not machines that obey a specific instruction-set with no particular affinity. There is an awkwardness to removing/rejecting people from your social circles. Simple examples are teens who don't want their parents connected to their Facebook. Not because the teen is evil, it's just that there's a certain "image" a teen might have for his friends that his parents don't see. That doesn't make the teen bad. I hope everyone here can relate and know of at least one thing that you knew wasn't the-end-of-the-world but you'd just rather not have your family know about(yet). I personally have been asked to connect on LinkedIn to people that I'd rather not be connected to. Call me thin-skinned if you want, I don't like trying to explain to a co-worker why I refuse to add him/her to my LinkedIn profile so instead I just do it and remove them a few weeks later in hopes they never notice. I was caught once(that I know of), and I just acted like "Whoa, I don't know what happened!" ...but the damage was done. It's the same thing like, when a co-worker comes to your desk and asked "Did you get that email I sent?", so they're standing there while you hunt through your inbox.... but you know the email is in the spam folder because this particular co-worker sends way too many emails with no action-items and you don't want the coworker to see all of her/his emails unread and piled up in a folder named "SPAM", so you just click around aimlessly while trying to think of a good way to get out of the situation. Rejection is hard. Yes, people should learn to deal with it - but the reality is, it's an emotion and non-logical things happen depending on the people involved. Hmm.... maybe I should rename my spam folder to "SuperImportant". Oh, this reminds me of an awesome story when a job-applicant submitted their resume and multi-page job-application paper to a school. Another employee took the filled out resume and gave it to the manager. The manager looked at it, saw "GED" in the education section and ripped up the application saying "I don't deal with GED people anymore". Not even a minute later, the job-applicant walked back in and said "Oh, I've just moved and put the wrong address. Can I get my application back to change it?". The look of horror the employee saw on the manager's face.... ___ “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou