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When I hang out with my own circle of friends and a new person joins that I didn't see in the group before, I always run up to them and say hi, ask them how they found us, take a few seconds to quickly introduce them to my friends in the circle so that my friends talk to them too, then tell them what we're in the middle of doing so that it feels like they're already included even if they joined late

my friends like this because it's easier for them too to ease-in into new people like that, and the new people like this as well, and it takes literally no effort for me, the whole thing I just said takes like 1 minute per person

this is not hard