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Regarding ‘Small Talk’

I was having a discussion with some acquaintances, and I’m not sure how the subject got there, but we found ourselves discussing the concept of ’small talk’.

One individual thought that it was good practice to ’study’ pop-culture. Essentially, she thought that it was a good idea to brush up, daily or so, on things like sports scores and tv show plots, especially if one does not normally track such things, to be able to talk about them with random strangers you might interact with.

Personally, I think that that kind of behavior is disingenuous. Pretending to have an interest in things like that seems more likely to blow up in one’s face. Worse still, you might find yourself forced to talk about American Idol or the Red Sox every subsequent time you deal with those people.

Anyway, those people sleep, even if I don’t, and I’m still interested in the idea.
Any opinions?

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Michael Leibman offline Verified User (8 months, 3 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 255 #
Littleton, CO, US | 3 months, 2 weeks ago (12 minutes after post)

I think people should brush up daily on the greatest ideas they can find on how to live as happily and healthily as possible and how they can best to this in a win-win sort of way so that their benifit also benefits all those they care about.

But sox are important too.

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medic!!! offline Verified User (3 months, 3 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months, 2 weeks ago (43 minutes after post)

It would probably be helpful for people who are bad at “small talk” (aka, me) but then you’d be changing yourself to suit others, which isn’t good. I suppose you can “study” it to a certain extent, as long as you keep it in the fields that you’re actually interested in. Like baseball and I? no thanks.

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An Undisclosed Location | 3 months, 2 weeks ago (52 minutes after post)

Yeah i think thats a stupid idea, if you have nothing to talk about.. dont talk. If you have nothing in common with someone, dont fake that you do. But hten… im rather antisocials, and I’m kinda disgusted by pop culture…

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An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (2 weeks after post)

I think it’s a tricky one. I always went for the just watch and learn about what I want to and sod the rest route, which means I’m not as good with new people, but if they only want to talk about things I have no interest in then I’m not that likely to become friends with them and see them more often, and if I work with them then I can talk to them about work.

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