#This isn't in response to any specific thingbtw its just a general musing on several things

[noisytenant]

I feel like a lot of people assume "mutuals" is synonymous with "friends" and "mutuals who reply to posts" is synonymous with "close friends".

I think it's generally good to not be in this habit, because interacting only with posts shared publicly is not really comparable to getting to know each other one-on-one.

I think fondly of my mutuals, enjoy interacting with them, and consider them all "potential friends" at the very least, but I think there are a lot of social functions a friend serves that aren't available at "mutuals" level of distance. If you want to close that distance, I think you need to actually talk to each other.