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While this is true, it also means they're not someone I want to converse with so it makes it easy to move on to someone more interesting.

I was more thinking about celebrities, influencers or con exhibitors, where a fan-celebrity relationship may exist, but not a real relationship.

Same goes for politicians, though there it becomes much more problematic.

If you got this with people that are actually close, there would be a problem.