I don't use social media. Faceplace, flutter, you name it, I really hate it, and I avoid it.
Unfortunately social media seems to be expected these days. Like it's a given that everybody uses it and loves it and posts on it habitually.
I don't and I'm tired of being harassed about it.
What are...
A week ago, I had a very very bad night with a friend who decided out of the blue to tell me he was going to kill himself by a messaging service.
The conversation didn't begin with that of course, we talked about his personal problems, and I immediately knew something was off with him. He was sp...
We're 50 days old! It's kind of surprising, at least to me; I didn't know we'd get so far. We've seen both good content and bad content, as anyone who's checked out meta knows. We're trying to keep quality high. We've certainly seen plenty of highly-upvoted posts, but it's easy for really good po...
I often find myself having issues having "smalltalk" or talks which are not directly aiming for some kind of solution or end, but are rather for amusement and as a pastime.
When talking with people, especially people at my own age (~18), I would often get tired of the conversation unless it was ...
I live in quite a small area outside of a city centre, so it can be a hotbed for door-to-door sales (maybe twice a week some weeks). But, mostly because I live near a place of worship for Jehovah Witness's our street is normally the first port of call for them to stop by (twice a week also). Norm...
I've noticed an oddly confusing greeting mismatch in the US that I wanted to understand. Unless men are very close friends or family, they tend to shake hands in greeting. When greeting a woman - even one they don't know well or just met - they often hug instead... or try to, which can lead to aw...
I made a comment on this question and it's been deleted from existence ... why?
The words from this comment have now appeared in an answer to the question which has received a number of up-votes.
Other comments on the question which seem similar in 'flavor' to my deleted one still stand.
I've always felt that asking
"are you alright?"
even when someone just fell down 8 meters or got stabbed to be pretty ironic. Of course that person is not alright, that's obvious.
Yet, I've never found a better way of asking "how someone is doing", and although it seems the problem is fi...
A week ago, I had a very very bad night with a friend who decided out of the blue to tell me he was going to kill himself by a messaging service.
The conversation didn't begin with that of course, we talked about his personal problems, and I immediately knew something was off with him. He was sp...
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