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Social face and Real face

photo credit: stock pinks via photopin (license)   Having social face is considered as very important to have good friendships/ relationships in our social life. Depending on the country, there may be different habits though, in Japan, it's believed that saving face is required to have good social life depending on the situation.   Especially in the places which are related to business or work which belong with the customer service industries, social face is everywhere.   In the private life, I sometimes heard from people saying they are having problems from showing social face.  Example 1.  According to the person "A" , she (A) was just being nice to her friend and her friend's husband and complimented her husband's looks a lot and etc.., as social face, but her friend took it as serious and thought she is interested in and crazy about her husband.  Now the person is very frustrated because her friend didn't u