Talent

When Good Friends Go Bad

Posted at 09:11AM Aug 21, 2008 by Kerry Shaw in Friendship Advice

Hey ladies!

Shhh…I don’t mean to be, well…mean, but I’m thinking about dropping a friend! I’m not taking this lightly, because I know it’s not fun to be dropped. It’s just that every time I see this particular friend of mine, it puts me in a bad mood.

But does that justify dropping a friend?

Zoey says absolutely not! She says “Don’t drop. Downgrade!” Just like Mac in TALENT, she doesn’t drop friends, she just sees them less. Way less.

Zoey says you keep moving someone down a tier until there’s nowhere to go. This is her system:

1. Tier 1 Friends: Co-plan parties, get daily e-mail check-ins, travel abroad with you


2. Tier 2 Friends: Attend pre-parties with you, see you weekly for friend-dates


3. Tier 3 Friends: Join you for parties (though not the pre-part), and get monthly e-mails


4. Tier 4 Friends: You send them mass e-mails. They see you once a year for coffee


5. Everyone else: nada

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