do you trust everyone you met?

@meoasis (720)
Nepal
February 12, 2007 4:49am CST
we meet new people every day how do you handle each people you meet anywhere at college,your work place,do you give equal response to all ?or simply decide after their attitude towards you?
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@nehakalley4 (1918)
• United States
14 Feb 07
Yeah we meet a lot of people here and there. Some meetings are short and only once forour life such as people at the conters, shops etc. We meet them , say hello, complete our work, bye bye and then forget. But till the time we are in contact with them we either believe them or not depending upon their behaviour. Sometimes due to their behaviour we are Then we meet people more than few times. We remember them for more amount of time. Then wehther we believe them or not depends alot on their behaviour. Then we make new friends because we can trust them and remember them all our life long.
@meoasis (720)
• Nepal
15 Feb 07
yea you seem specific and practical that is the most common thing we do meeting new people will i be wrong if i say your own attitude also makes a difference
• United States
16 Feb 07
No thats also a good poin. Our own attitude also makes a difference. Sometimes whether ow good the person is we dont want to believe him/her or maybe that person is not good enough not trust worhty enough but we still believe him/her. Sometimes the circumstances makes us believe him/her.
@jolope (987)
• Philippines
12 Feb 07
i guess the trick would be to just be friendly but not trusting.. it wouldn't hurt to get to know someone wouldn't it??but i think giving your full trust is a different thing..
@meoasis (720)
• Nepal
19 Feb 07
yea i think bieing friendly is one of the best trick to handle any type of people
@ossie16d (11821)
• Australia
25 Feb 07
For me it is a case of having a select few very special people in my life that I trust implicitely and there is probably nothing at all that they don't know about me. However those people I meet casually, I am polite to them but would not tell them anything that was private and that is because my attitude is that I do not know this person so how do I know I can trust them. Personally I place people (non-family) in 3 separate categories. They are special friends and these people know me extremely well and most of them are long standing friendships. Other friends, with whom I get along with but would not tell them everything about my life. The third category is simply acquaintences and these are the people that I would meet socially but they are not an actual part of my day to day life. It is not that I do not trust them but simply that the "special feeling" is not there and out lives are so completely different. I will say however that if any of them visit me at my home then they are treated with equality, except that special friends treat it like their own home, just as I treat their homes as mine. I do not think that we can ever have too many friends but of all the friends we do have, in most cases we do not have the same bond with all of them.
@gharinder (2044)
• India
17 Feb 07
yeah, i generally only see the positive side of the person, so very easily i start trusting them, i have suffered for that but still i dont i am not able to think in a negative way, actually i mostly give my friends and people the benefit of doubt, i am too scared to hurt someone
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
19 Feb 07
Considering I just started a new job ..I can say, that I try to give everyone a fair chance. For the most part, I believe that 99% of the people that we meet are nice honest people taht are very trustworthy. It is that 100% that I need to work on spotting.
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@charms88 (7538)
• Philippines
15 Feb 07
No, I am by nature a very private person. I don't easily shared my stories to everyone. To this day, I have maintain a chosen few. These are the people that I can completely look after. For the friends in College and at work place, I only deal with them casually.
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@ssh123 (31073)
• India
14 Feb 07
When I see new people, I will not have anything to do with them that needs trust and confidence. I have to get to know them before entrusting any responsibility to them.
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@Akeela (2078)
• Trinidad And Tobago
12 Feb 07
im a person that give the benifit of the doubt but since, i came across bad experience i dont anymore.
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• India
12 Feb 07
No never.It is not good to do so.One day you will be get cheated.
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@filchi (291)
• Netherlands
12 Feb 07
Its hard to trust people at the first meeting. Even those people you already know sometimes break your trust. So i guess you can only trust yourself, though you still be nice to them, socialize and trust your instinct whom you can trust.
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@Anakata2007 (1785)
• Canada
14 Feb 07
I do most of the time, and sometimes I get let down, but not often. I think people are generally trustable. (is that a word?)
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@koh2007 (341)
• Singapore
17 Feb 07
no.. i will wait and see if he is a good guy or bad guy for a few days.. :)
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
12 Feb 07
I'm a bit weary/cautious at first when meeting new people in different places. It really depends on where i meet them. If it's at work, I find it a little easier to talk to coworkers and open up a little bit; if it's at a chatsite, I am very cautious and only make polite talk. It also depends on how well they receive me when they first meet me. If i get a nice bright smiling hello and a bubbly greeting, then i tend to think this person is ok to talk to, if they give me a snobbish type response or a bit of attitude, then i tend to shy away and not really bother with them.
• United States
13 Feb 07
People have to earn my trust first.I don't give it away free.Thats the smart way to be!
@kutchi (12320)
• Pakistan
12 Feb 07
No I don't trust any stranger But I give them positive response
@lemar37 (201)
• United States
13 Feb 07
No i don't if you do sometimes you can get hurt or taken advantage of.
• Nepal
13 Feb 07
it depends upon mood really
• Philippines
12 Feb 07
No I don't but I respect them being what they are.
• United States
13 Feb 07
People have to earn my trust first.I don't give it away free.Thats the smart way to be!