trailing. How to find true friends (and love) in 45 minutes. Comments That was a excellent and well written article and i thoughly enjoyed reading it and took away some very interesting information. James Nov 8th 2011 " My unscientific preliminary conclusion: "Or in other words, the entire article was a waste of time. Restating an experiment that is 14 years old is not an excuse for this dribble. Does Wired not have Editors? How did this piece of crap even get published? S Nov 8th 2011 In reply to S Well but, you did take your time to read the article and even write a comment about it Paula Sep 2nd 2012 I want to love that. I'm all for people being genuine and vulnerable with each other, all the time. But isn't that skewed by the fact that it was a self-selecting group who knew they were taking part in an experiment? Would people in real life be more cynical, withholding personal information to their advantage over another, more open person? Or be embarrassed if you started that kind of conversation in normal social circumstances? Just wondering if anything was in place to account for that during these experiments. Georgina Nov 14th 2011 In reply to Georgina Georgina's comment is accurate, and there are many caveats I can think of: the subects were in an interesting situation, where they were SUPPOSED to talk to this person, with the assurance that they wouldn't need to talk to this person