Don’t let your friends be as annoying as poorly tied shoes.

One of the things that’s bizarre to us today that wasn’t bizarre twenty years ago is how we make friends.

Twenty years ago, friends were either local or gatekeeped. Social networking sites weren’t as widespread and international as today, so grade school was the primary way to make friends. And, if you were at an exclusive college or working at a company, you had to be “in” to be friends with the people there.

Neither of those barriers exists today, so while making friends has gotten easier, making good…