I can assure you that there were people who didn’t like small talk, and people who didn’t quite get that, long before the internet was a twinkle in Berners-lee’s eye
Not liking it isn’t the same thing as not doing it, or even not knowing how to do it well. It’s a necessary evil, one of many things in life like having to do laundry, or waking up earlier than you’d like to. Sure there are some people who don’t do those things either (and fall out of society), but there are few who deeply enjoy them. So too with small talk, it’s for colleagues and acquaintances. The way someone becomes my friend is immediately when I realise that they are open to deeper talk
I don’t understand why it is that we all have to pretend that society is supposed to be this anti-social.
Mate, that bus-stop story some lady has about how proud she is of her son for getting into the college he wanted is a story I want to hear, and you’re making that more difficult for me.
Chronically online people complaining about having to do the bare minimum of socializing to be nice to other people is classic Internet
I can assure you that there were people who didn’t like small talk, and people who didn’t quite get that, long before the internet was a twinkle in Berners-lee’s eye
And I can assure you that spending all of your time in your room is a recipe for never learning how to do it.
Not liking it isn’t the same thing as not doing it, or even not knowing how to do it well. It’s a necessary evil, one of many things in life like having to do laundry, or waking up earlier than you’d like to. Sure there are some people who don’t do those things either (and fall out of society), but there are few who deeply enjoy them. So too with small talk, it’s for colleagues and acquaintances. The way someone becomes my friend is immediately when I realise that they are open to deeper talk
I don’t understand why it is that we all have to pretend that society is supposed to be this anti-social.
Mate, that bus-stop story some lady has about how proud she is of her son for getting into the college he wanted is a story I want to hear, and you’re making that more difficult for me.