Thread 212228388

>Start telling their personal stuff to random strangers and asking them personal questions for absolutely no reason.

Why are they like this?

i dont do this, i dont trust anyone. I don't try to get to know anyone either. I enjoy being alone with no friends. My social contact is via /int/, that's all I need

>>212228388 (OP)
Because we like to make friends and that's the only way we know how? Anyway, how's your sex life?

>>212228399
>friends
>implying you make friends asking random people personal stuff

Why are sharter so deranged?

>>212228399
Have you taken a shit today bro?

>>212228388 (OP)
>talk to nobody and be silent all the time
why are italians like this

>>212228448
thats not what happens thou

here you generally make dumb jokes when u have to interact with strangers but you dont ask or thell them ur pesonal stuff

it's not as common as it used to be
soon we will be like Finland

>>212228471
is it because of fear

>>212228418
Lel
https://youtu.be/xXYLbYdSdKg?si=INf_vDHyvv-HjtDu

>>212228388 (OP)
This is really just a boomer thing

>>212228471
We do that too, want to hear a knock knock joke?

>>212228521
Sure, who's there?

>>212228422
What do you define as personal stuff? Ideas of openess can vary between cultures.

>>212228525
It's the police ma'am. Your son has been hit by a drunk driver. He's dead.

>>212228525
your friend! :D

>>212228388 (OP)
I do like the idea, a stranger is unbiased towards problems and may be Mord helpful than
SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW

>>212228388 (OP)
You're dealing with a very unrepresentative demographic of americans. Younger/whiter/working class americans are very taciturn, introverted, reserved, even more so than europeans. 90% of the people I know irl are like this. The super extroverted/making conversation with randos culture is rapidly dying out. I lived in Germany for 2 years and, opposite of stereotypes, I was the one who was overly reserved while the Germans I met were comparatively gregarious and were the ones initiating conversation with me.

>>212228529
i will make an ecample
you are at the gas station and ask the random guy:

how are you are you having a good day? I had quite a stressful day and proceed to tell him how was ur day, what u did, then u ask him ar eu married etc etc

>Europeans don't understand the concept of making friends
Sounds about right

>>212228578 >>212228529

when i was in america i took a bus and the driver asked me what are you going to do today, ar eyou exited youa re going to x place etc.
It was weird as fuq

>>212228595
again, there's a massive younger-older divide. Previous generations absolutely were and are like this, but not gen Z.

But this isn't just america. Old people in scotland will randomly come up to to you and start asking you questions and making conversation, while younger generations won't.

>>212228578
>Younger/whiter/working class americans are very taciturn, introverted, reserved, even more so than europeans
This has been my experience. A lot of your Gen Alpha kids seem borderline unsocialised, though to be fair I don't know any UK kids of that age group to compare.

>>212228388 (OP)
Social etiquette demands that you must pretend to be interested in strangers lives regardless if you actually care or not. Unfortunately there are some people who think a "how are you" mean that it's ok to discuss every issue in their life and there nothing you can do except sit thru it.

>>212228578
Nah, you're just socially retarded and don't go out enough; thinking everybody is like you

>>212228581
We call it small talk. Nobody actually gives a shit what you're tallking about. The hope is one of you is funny or interesting enough to make the conversation worthwhile. Or find out if they have a business or some shit, it doesn't matter. It's chit-chat. You're overthinking it.

>>212228622
>>212228651
I don't know, from my experience Gen Alpha definitely seems more a lot more social than their Gen Z counterparts. Remind me of Gen X the
https://youtu.be/osI9YRLXVDg?si=zhwGOYl35ica0Z_Y

>>212228897
we don't talk about gen alpha

>>212228568
YOU DIDNT HAVE TO CUT ME OFF