Cliques

ninjaclown

No matter what happens, when people gather together, wherever people gather together they form cliques. No matter how much you try to keep everyone you know together, they splinter into exclusive groups. No matter what you wish, you will be excluded from some of them.

Wow, that sounded really emo, but that's what bothers me.

Vorpy

It happens on the internet, it happens in asylums, it happens in prisons, it happens in crematories, it happens at work, school, work, hell, even survival situations where people are most likely going to die.

Gelzo

There's a limit to how many people you can have meaningful interactions with on a regular basis. I think cliques are only a problem when they treat outsiders with incivility, and even then I'd hesitate to blame the problem on just the groups that form.

TheMightyAnonym

I have a slew of cliques.

• My IJBM brethren.
• Mah bronies.
• The MMA guys at my martial arts school.
• The little kids at my church.
• The instructors in my martial arts school.
• My YF brethren.
• My OTC kin.
• The LessWrong folk.

There are also mini-cliques, but they are too innumerable to list.