If you don't really like someone would you...

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If you're not keen on someone for whatever reason do you think the best course of action is

1. to be really friendly and chatty with them and the other person would think you're great

2.keep it polite, saying hello, small talk etc but a bit distant- not rude or anything.

1. let them know what you think of them and then continue with 2 above.
2. Something else.

I know a couple of people that behave like 1. I think it’s called being an extrovert
Personally I don’t generally dislike people unless they’ve done something horrible, in which case I would be be a 2 or a 4 if I can avoid them.

1. I tend to be quite nice, have had a nice chat when forced by social occasions etc but not over the top and I don't care if she likes me... I certainly wouldn't tell her though

1 is manipulative. I'd only do that if I truly loathed them.
2 is standard policy.

Totally depends why I didn't like them and what the situation was. I'm often friendly and chatty with people I don't particularly like because I know it's just personality clash, or because, well, life's too short. If they'd screwed me over, they'd get the bare basics or cut out.

This person she described as a knob hasn't done anything to her at all. She really took the piss out of her and the kids too. I don't even understand why she called her a knob in the first place! Really bizarre. The only thing I can think of is she is a bit odd but nothing that affects anyone else negatively.

1. Do what I have to do to be polite and civilised, but nothing beyond to lead them in to thinking that I think more of them.

I don't often strongly dislike people and be in a postion where I have to continue contact with them.

There is an aquaintance that I got on OK with initially, but was still an aquaintance, not a friend. Someone I trust had a concern about her which made me cautious. I later felt that she was trying to get over familiar with my DCs which connected with that concern and I did end up blanking her in order to put up a barrier between her and my DCs. My DCs' wellbeing comes before social niceity in this instance. I don't like an aquaintance assuming a position of responsibility over my DCs at the end of an activity when I've been delayed within the building by a minute or so and they are still safely in the care of their instructor.

Stringing someone along and mocking them behind their backs is a particularly unpleasant form of bullying.