I think that being socially versatile is important in situations where a common goal is pursued or a set of rules or laws must be maintained to ensure a safe and comfortable environment. I do think, however, that if your desire is to find and establish a true connection or relationship in which your strengths and weaknesses are equally respected and understood, you must be yourself. In this regard, trying to maintain many different masks is draining in that you must constantly juggle between the many narratives you have created to represent yourself, rather than the one that is true. This particular road is what gets many of us into a mess. In trying to maintain consistency in the images we portray, we become slaves to the expectations of others which, ironically, are of our own creation. So while expending limited energy in maintaining this shoddy structure built of false pretense, we find ourselves not one step closer to real closeness. Failure to fulfill these expectations stems fear of rejection. Rather than exhauste ourselves with likely futile attempts to be liked by many people, maybe it's best to exhauste nothing and be loved by a few. If mindful of constructive criticism, seeing rejection as natural rather than personal, allows for honesty of the self and the loving of that honesty by others.