Socializing and Confrontation

[unspeakablehorror]

 When trying to develop good social habits, I've had to ignore the vast majority of confrontation approaches I've seen on social media.  I've occasionally seen someone actually handle such situations well, but mostly it just feels like watching failure in real-time.  Which is useful in telling me what to avoid, but that doesn't necessarily tell me what I should actually do.  I feel like I've had to just fumble around wildly in trying to figure these things out, but I prefer that to copying strategies that seem to reliably lead to the very things I'm trying to avoid.