About what are people talking with each other nowadays when anyone can get any information with a quite easy and relatively natural way?

  • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    11 days ago

    A few weeks ago, at work, I tried to befriend a new coworker by:

    1. Apologizing while slightly making an awkward hand gesture
    2. Introducing myself
    3. Proposing having a cup of coffee together
    4. Asking about where they are from
    5. Asking about their likes and dislikes
    6. All the while I tried commenting on anything and everything they said in a friendly manner

    Everything was going well, until I asked them some question about something trivial that they didn’t know the answer to. I have forgotten what exactly it was, but it should’ve been clear to them, that I’m not looking for a scientifically, empirically or factually correct answer. And then they pick up and burry their face in their phone, starting to “google” stuff. I acted like I had to return to work, because I had lost all will to befriend them further.

    Chitchat is dead.

    • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Um, or they could be neurodivergent.

      I would not have understood that someone didn’t want a factual answer if I was asked a question that had a factual answer. In fact, I get annoyed when people ask me questions they know I don’t know. It has nothing to do with faster access to info.

      • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        10 days ago

        They could’ve been, in which case it wouldn’t have had to do with faster access to info, and I would’ve been making quite an ableist assumption. But,

        I’m not looking for a scientifically, empirically or factually correct answer

          • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            10 days ago

            There is no evidence that I could put forth here to prove how the situation, the paralinguistic information therein and my experience with neurodiversity made it clear that I am not dealing with - and therefore unjustly judging - a person on the spectrum, so I’m withdrawing from this thread. 🙏🩷

          • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            10 days ago

            There is no evidence that I could put forth here to prove how the situation, the paralinguistic information therein and my experience with neurodiversity made it clear that I am not dealing with - and therefore unjustly judging - a person on the spectrum, so I’m withdrawing from this thread. 🙏🩷