The article explores how people's kindness affects their relationships in social networks. By looking at how individuals act towards each other, researchers found that being nice to others can change how we interact with them. They discovered that when people are kind, it can make peer influence weaker by about 36%. Additionally, they found that our friends' actions can have two types of effects on us: they can either rub off on us or affect us indirectly. This shows that being nice can have a big impact on how we behave in social groups.