First impressions are critical when meeting strangers to get to know them better. Since, ideally, you are both strangers to each other, giving the other person an accurate snapshot of who you are in a small amount of time is a tricky yet common part of daily life. Sometimes, a stranger is just someone you interact with as a part of a transaction, but in any of these situations, you are both giving and receiving information. Though these interactions occur so frequently, an underlying pressure can make them seem performative. Strangers make tradeoffs regarding how much of their private lives they want to let into this public setting. I call it a public setting because the stranger I assume is being dealt with is in the general population, and no special trust is yet formed. Being a stranger is a valuable experience because it forces one to go outside of one's comfort zone and learn how one wants to project oneself to society. Though this seems disingenuous, being inauthentic is not based on reserving private information about oneself and displaying one's best self, but instead pretending to be someone one is not.