Also called Naissa's Guide to Not being a Ginourmous Fuckhead.

From time to time on the internet you'll make friends. Sometimes these friends will have other friends, or family, or significant others. This can be tricky! It seems to me that most people aren't really sure how this works!

Friends/Family/Significant others of your friends are people, not lepers. Now granted, you don't HAVE TO Play with Bob's mentally deficient cousin that thinks its a good idea to be a protection paladin wearing cloth, but you SHOULD include friends of friends in things from time to time and engage in conversation with them so that they don't feel like they've got the plague or something.

Let me give you an example. My bestest friend in the entire universe and me had two friends that are no longer friends because they're asshats. They would always say "Hey Naissa do you want to run X instance?" Always. They would never ask her! Ever! This lead to hurt feelings and me being cranky. It wasn't that they just needed X class and that was me, because at the time I was a DPS warrior 100% of the time, and you don't NEED one of those for a 5 man!

So I've made a handy chart type thing. We'll get to that later.

If someone is a friend of a friend, you don't HAVE TO like them, theres no rule or law that says you do but you should probably NOT pretend they don't exist, or only talk to them to ask them where your friend is. Thats rude, and you want to avoid doing that. If you go 3 months without saying a word to someone and then you say "Hi - Where is Bob?" The first thought going through their mind is how they can kill you without geting caught.

Its not nice, it leads to hurt feelings, don't do it!

Lets talk about SOs - If someone's husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend/mail order bride plays the same game, its probably a good idea to talk to them and invite them to things from time to time, even if they usually say no, because 10 times out of 10 someone is going to choose their SO over you. "Sorry Tom, like you, but I love Susan and Susan says you're an asshat, don't talk to me anymore!" - You probably want to avoid that, or you're a shitty friend to start with.

Also if you're a hooker you probably want to avoid acting like such to someone's SO unless you're looking for trouble. For example:

Hi Janet/Tom do you want to go to heroic underbog? - GOOD
Janet, I was wondering do you have any pictures? PREFERABLY TOPLESS EH EH EH? - BAD
Tom, Did you know that Janet is a horrible person and she's not right at all for you? - BAD! BAD! BAD! Stay out of people's personal business! >< ;;

Why am I posting this? Because I've seen this happen entirely too often. Enjoy!