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I’m not sure the distinction between fun friends and mutual interest friends makes sense to me.

“Fun friends are noisy, carousing, extroverts; mutual-interest friends are generally rather quiet and sedentary.”

It seems to me like from the definition of fun friends that they could be considered mutual interest friends where the mutual interest is in partying or drinking or whatever.

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The article mentions mutual interest could be a subtype of fun, but they wanted to make a distinction between when getting together is the goal and when there's another objective beyond that.

For example with drinking, they seem to think there's enough of a difference between the friends that get together to have a few drinks and the friends that get together to do a wine tasting focused on a region of France.

Isn't drinking just another mutual interest, albeit a noisy one?

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