Do you introduce your friends?

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Went to a party this evening. Not knowing how to get there at all, I asked on facebook if anyone was able to come with me and take me there and back into the city. Someone said yes. She sent me a few messages and said we'll meet in a cafe and go from there. I said that'll be fine.

We met up, had a cup of tea and went to get some food. We started walking and a friend of hers came across us and started talking to her and I wasn't introduced.

After said meeting, friend said should I have introduced you? I said I wasn't overly fussed. It wasn't as if they were talking for hours and I was feeling left out.

Would you have introduced me? They talked for 5 minutes or so.

I probably wouldn't have introduced you for the simple reason that I might not have known who I was talking to and I would have had to ask them their name in order to introduce you to each other. I usually just assume that people I'm talking to already know each other.

I always desperately try to keep different social groups I'm part of separated from each other, so I wouldn't introduce you unless you asked me to.

In that situation, I would have been you....so no?....I am always the person who needs the escort, never the one being the escort.

I am always confused about this. I usually see for how long the conversation with the new entrant is likely to go and the time the new entrant has. If she just wants to say a passing hi, I wouldn't introduce. Sometimes the new entrant is curious and wants to know or introduces him/herself.
I sat and thought about this now for sometime before typing out the solution. But in reality, I would panic, obsess about this and would be silently cursing the person who came over to say hi for putting me through awkwardness.

I probably would have introduced you. It's a normal social courtesy to do so. In real life, people usually introduce me to others that I do not know so I think it is only polite to do so.

I never introduce anyone to anyone. It never even occurs to me to do so and if they want to introduce themselves nothing is stopping them.

I would have introduced you straight away. I have learnt that this is the polite thing to do.

Social etiquette says you should have been introduced. As mentioned before, the reason I will not always introduce someone else is I cannot remember their name and I do not want to call attention to it.

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In addition introductions are always so awkward, too. It feels artificial to tell someone "this is..."
I feel embarrassed and terribly visible when I a, introduced.

That's one big reason why I don't use facebook or social media. I find the "you know so-and-so, I know so-and-so" conversations awkward.

I like my groups to be separate and remain separate. I don't want people in groups mixing. I don't want to see a work colleague out of work. Last thing I want is work people to be involved in my hobbies, and each of the hobbies to remain separate.

One of my hobbies is board gaming and its great. For the most part (in a club and convention environment) its finding a player... any player (that doesn't have a past history of being annoying). You talk games, and play games. Nothing personal.

Does anyone else prefer to keep their different lives/groups separate?

I have three groups of people that sometimes I just want them to be together so that they can stop dragging me from place to place.

i didnt know you had to ._.

I introduce everyone to each other, but I am very big into having a full, fruitful social life. I like people knowing kind and fun people so when I have the chance to spread the friend family further I introduce people when we are all in the same place. I only hang out with good people so it's good for them to meet more good people I guess.

If it was just 5mins, so perhaps went on a little longer than I had intially thought it might and you were unlikely to meet again, I possibly wouldn't introduce you. But, if it was a little longer than that, yes, I would. I hate not being introduced and end up being struck dumb for the duration of the conversation between my friend and their friend. So, I would not do that to anyone else. I walked out of a wedding reception (we were just at the evening part), because I was there as my husband's guest and he never introduced me to anyone. I felt so uncomfortable that I couldn't stay. He didn't see the importance of people being told who I was, but it was awul for me. People were just staring at me and nobody uttered a word to me. They probably knew I was his wife, but without the introduction, weren't given an opportunity to start a conversation and I simply couldn't speak, without it.