Originally Posted by MaskTVMaura

It's up to each of us to create the kind of filtering system that ensures people in our lives don't take advantage of us. For me, I simply won't do anybody any favours in the first 6 months of knowing them -- the predatory people usually don't have enough patience to stick around long enough, and the people who just want to be my friends don't need any favours.

Live and learn.