13 Show People You Like Them and Make Friends with Ease Within the first thirty-seconds of meeting someone for the first time, we make many observations which we translate into judgments about that person we are meeting. Every human being does this. We do this naturally and automatically with little, if any, real awareness of this process. This means that if we all do it, those we come into contact with are observing and making judgments about us, like we are about them. If you happen to demonstrate a disliking attitude this information will present itself within those first few moments, inmost interactions. For this reason we must know how we come across to people when first meeting them. If we come across in a positive way people will attracted to us because, as in the law of physics, positive attracts and negative repels. If you want to show people you like them present your positive self.