Sentences with phrase «friend than a stranger»

The researchers found that writers are more confident their friends can correctly interpret their e-mails than strangers — and readers are more confident in interpreting e-mails from friends than strangers, as well.

Not exact matches

For example, reaching out to strangers on Twitter is more socially acceptable than it is on Facebook, since most people try to restrict their Facebook visibility to close friends and family.

Respondents to Fairfield's survey ranked partners and pets as important sources of support, but Zuckerberg says she was surprised to see that random acts of kindness from strangers ranked higher in value than interactions with online friends.

More than 90 million people worldwide use it to communicate with friends or strangers, be it while playing an online game like Fortnite or simply to discuss the latest trend in cryptocurrency.

They skip telling their friends about their latest project or business because they think strangers will care more than the people closest to them.

People trust their friends, family, and, sometimes, complete strangers more than they trust brands (or brands» employees).

I have become fast friends with women who were strangers to me less than 6 months ago, and we have come to rely on each other for so much.»

There is a big party scene at night, and rather than fill the house with strangers, we'd like to feature actual friends.

This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.

Nature, to be sure, encourages all of us to channel our caregiving more in the direction of blood relatives and reciprocating friends than in the direction of strangers and enemies, so perhaps there is a universally human epigenetic rule to this effect.

Better in a virtual community among strangers than in actual time and space wounding family, friends and neighbors.

p.s.. Also, by some super strange coinky dink, my friend Erica has also done a croissant tutorial (her's seems easier than my method tbh) I think we must have a psychic food connection haha

«The taboo of discussing «strange» cultural and the — now more than ever — different world of dietary issues, both personal and medicinal, is addressed in a casual, fun and inspiring story involving two friends.

Rather than spend time with friends, they're talking to strangers on the internet and instead of playing outside, they're playing video games.

It was strange, having to make all new friends with guys that I shared little in common with other than a routine of midnight diaper changes.

Seventh, there is a big divide in parenting circles between the «co-sleepers» and the «crib - sleepers» so be aware that whichever choice you make will probably be challenged by more than one of your friends or relatives or even complete strangers who seem to have no issues with giving advice to someone they don't know!

BOSS TOLD ME THAT many people assume mothers who pump exclusively are doing so out of convenience, rather than necessity or utter desperation: «Moms frequently feel attacked and criticized by friends, family, Internet strangers, etc..

If your friends and family live close by, it is a good idea to visit those houses as your toddler will be more at ease with them than a stranger's house.

It may seem strange to others who haven't experienced loss to hear me speak so fondly of grief, to personify it, to see it as my friend, my partner rather than as my enemy.

This staring bug can seem to be contagious and before you know it, your little baby has a lot more than just your eyes looking at them, when other friends, family or even sometimes strangers getting involved in this love glare.

TechPresident reports that the Obama campaign tested their new «Dashboard» system to let volunteers from around the country make calls into Wisconsin, the AFL - CIO has trialed software that matches voter lists with volunteers» Facebook friends to let them call targets that they actually know rather than total strangers, and the Walker campaign combined VoIP with digital voter files to automate the connection between identification calls and data entry.

But a recent study by researchers at Chatham University found that friends are no better at interpreting correct emotional intent in e-mails than complete strangers.

«Friends are no better than strangers in accurately identifying emotion in emails: Reliance on friendship, context to interpret emotion in email is ineffective.»

Since I have been sick, I have met the most incredibly giving and kind people and been the receiver of the most thoughtful and loving words and support from my family, friends and strangers; More than I could I ever give in return.

What's more revitalizing than putting a smile and maybe even a little innocent blush on a co-worker, a friend, or even a stranger.

Eating surrounded by friends makes you prone to eating more than eating with a stranger or eating alone.

Technology and smartphone apps, like MapMyRun and Strava, make it easier than ever to share your mileage, speed, and race results with friends and strangers.

It's the kind of joyful lifestyle blog I just love to read, with posts full of beautiful photos, updates about Hannah's most recent adventures, and the kind of detail that makes me feel I'm reading about a friend rather than a relative stranger.

It's this strange time in your life when people are all around you, but rather than feeling safe in the knowledge that everyone is looking to make a friend connection, suddenly it feels awkward.

Start with your friends and family members (aka, not strangers on the Internet): these folks may think and feel differently than you, but having an open and honest conversation is vital.

Members also are matched with friends of friends through Facebook, so it helps foster a more comfortable environment than the awkwardness of being set up with a complete stranger.

Unlike dating from a usual circle of friends, dating online gives one the opportunity to get to know people who are total strangers and they possibly have newer things to offer than our usual friends.

Phishers will likely have a lot less friends than normal people because it usually takes awhile to gain friends naturally and it's not easy to just go get a bunch of friends for use on a fake profile because most normal people are skeptical of strangers wanting to be their friends, especially ones who don't already have a large friends list.

The free service lets Facebook users connect with friends of friends... We think that's much more effective than emailing strangers on regular dating sites.»

H3: As the number of friends SNS users have increases, they will have more profile views from others, and more of their profile views will come from friends rather than from strangers.

The data show that profile consumption behavior is very prevalent across all users, with more than 93 % of users engaging in profile browsing of friends or strangers.

Carell's character is far more enjoyably off - skew than he was before (and Kristen Wiig [Girl Most Likely, Friends with Kids] is hilarious, too, as the strange secretary he is smitten with), and he has a scene with a green screen that had me screaming with laughter.

-- but it's still an okay action game to play with friends and strangers who would rather blast giant monsters than serve as cannon fodder in Call of Duty or Battlefield.

But, there may be a deep, dark secret to this stranger that makes him more than the kind friend of the family than he might appear.

Other than a brief conversation held between best friends Gerry (Elizabeth Olsen) and Lilly (Dakota Fanning) at the beginning of the movie, where they discuss first Lilly catching her father cheating on her mother and then the strange notion of parents having sex in general before moving on to their own unappreciated virginity, there is no real plot to become de-virginized.

It's much easier to type that The Big Sick made us cry, especially to strangers or acquaintances we rarely see in person, than it is to say it aloud to a friend in the unpredictable meatspace.

Entranced by the idea of hunting alongside friends and strangers online, I purchased a copy and embarked on an adventure that has continued for more than half of my life.

And then, on top of that, I am no particular Will Ferrell fan, as I am one of the few people in my circle of friends who did not like Anchorman (though I loved Elf and Stranger Than Fiction, which are admittedly atypical of his usual vulgar output).

Still, the only reasons to see this would be either if you were a stupid movie reviewer who wanted to find stranger - than - ordinary fare, or if you had a few friends and wanted something to lightly mock while still being lightly entertained while doing so.

Clooney is tailor - made for the role — a charming but mildly arrogant bachelor who would much rather spend his life surrounded by strangers than with family and friends.

As if there weren't enough doomsday - themed films released last year, 2013 will see no less than five different movies on the topic — that is, if you include «World War Z.» But before audiences flock to theaters to watch stars like Brad Pitt and James Franco try to survive the end of days, writer / director Todd Berger's «It's a Disaster» offers a darkly comic tale about a group of friends (and one stranger) who are forced into an impromptu therapy session following a biological attack on the city.

It's harder to practice critical conversations with family and friends (which is why so many of us don't post this on Facebook) than with strangers.

Rather than taking lecture notes, students are watching videos, surfing the «Net, or instant messaging friends and strangers.

That said, it seems clear that, as a nation, we have not done nearly enough to teach our children how to look across lines of race and class and see similarities rather than differences — to see themselves and their friends reflected in the faces of others rather than unknown and perhaps unknowable strangers.

My best friends say it feels like a Lamborghini should feel, while my girlfriend, who has a strange fantasy of eating a bowl of cereal in the driver's seat of a Countach, says, «The Huracan took all my childhood dreams of being in a Lamborghini and multiplied them by modern technology, the end result being faster and better looking than anything I could have imagined, leaving me with a bit of whiplash and a big ear - to - ear grin.»