Thursday, November 5, 2015

We Tried To Go From Coworkers To Besties In One Week, Just To See If We Could

7 days + 4 coworkers + an unknown number of drinks = best friends forever?

Photos by Lauren Zaser / Design by Alice Mongkongllite / BuzzFeed

Maybe you get lunch with some of them, or go out for drinks, or occasionally like one of their posts on Facebook. But chances are — at least according to The New York Times — that there aren’t very many of them you consider Real Friends, however you define that.

This is certainly true of us: four BuzzFeed Life editors who literally sit within 5 feet of each other, but have never really made an effort to get to know each other or hang out outside of work.

At least on paper, we’re very similar: We work on the same team, we live in New York, we’re around the same age and come from similar backgrounds. And we probably spend more time with each other than with anyone else in our lives. So why weren’t we friends?

The Times also famously published a story suggesting that you could essentially game your own brain into falling in love by answering a series of increasingly personal questions with someone else.


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