Lovely post - not just bc I'm featured but actually bc you made me jump back into the algo and connection mindset, and I love it. It's also interesting how these links share common threads but they fail to mention much about something we talk about a lot: accountability. It would be interesting to find a thread of articles that claim/disavow the factors of accountability in differing friendship types.
“Reciprocity is the foundation of every friendship: mutual sharing and caring in a context of trust. The tension embedded in medium friendship is this absence of clarity, allowing for the possibility of… “asymmetric expectation”: You may like your medium friend less (or more) than they like you.”
Great article, thanks for sharing. I’ll be covertly determining who my “medium friends” are this week. Great to meet up and look forward to many exchanged thoughts in the future!
Lovely post - not just bc I'm featured but actually bc you made me jump back into the algo and connection mindset, and I love it. It's also interesting how these links share common threads but they fail to mention much about something we talk about a lot: accountability. It would be interesting to find a thread of articles that claim/disavow the factors of accountability in differing friendship types.
“Reciprocity is the foundation of every friendship: mutual sharing and caring in a context of trust. The tension embedded in medium friendship is this absence of clarity, allowing for the possibility of… “asymmetric expectation”: You may like your medium friend less (or more) than they like you.”
Great article, thanks for sharing. I’ll be covertly determining who my “medium friends” are this week. Great to meet up and look forward to many exchanged thoughts in the future!