You’ve met a delightful person at a party and got on famously the entire evening. But, before you go all in on matching buddy tattoos and unbreakable blood oaths, you’d do well to first ask yourself a few questions:
Will dialogue be possible when one or both parties are not drunk and/or otherwise socially lubricated? It’s expensive and unhealthy to get loaded before every hang session.
Is there anything left to discuss now that your first, admittedly great conversation has run its course? You can only compliment each other’s shoes and joke about pineapple on pizza so many times.
Did this person deliver “That’s what she said” jokes seriously, or ironically? Would it be acceptable either way?
What is this person’s online presence like? You’ll be obligated to follow your new friend on all social-media platforms. This includes the one that your grandparents are on, the up-and-coming apps that you know won’t last, and the one that didn’t used to be a haven for far-right extremists looking to instigate a race war.
Does this person want something from you besides friendship? Sex? Attention? A new sucker to enlist in a pyramid scheme?
Will you eventually have to become friends with this person’s friends? Will this person have to meet your friends? Will you be expected to pretend that mixing friend groups isn’t absolutely horrible a hundred per cent of the time?
Do you really want to attend this person’s birthday parties and other festive events for the duration of your lives? And, during holiday seasons, exchange ostensibly thoughtful but utterly misguided gifts that you’ll both have to keep, no matter how tiny your apartments are?
If the civil liberties of strangers are thrown into contention, will this person fight at your side? Make sure to throw out a ton of hypotheticals to suss out exactly what it would take to get your potential pal up in arms.
After everything you love and depend upon erupts in flames or is swept away by floods, will this person be able to survive through an increasingly unforgiving series of doomsday scenarios?
Would this person strengthen or weaken your roaming group of survivors as you navigate a post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of food and shelter, all the while fending off stronger, better-organized, and immensely more violent gangs?
After the dust has settled and moral order is restored, will this person help to rebuild a better society? Or will this person be permanently scarred and unable to function in a slightly less atavistic and hateful world?
If everything checks out, congrats! Sounds like you’ve got a new B.F.F. 
Things to Consider Before Making a New Friend
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