In light of the originality of humans, the most common question is by far, "how's life?" It's a simple two word question and avoids the trouble of thinking of a more complex question. Indeed, it is the perfect solution for an apathetic society!
Interestingly enough, the answers generally carry little weight. We seem to be a society that specializes in sharing as little of of our lives with others as possible. We have more means of communication than any other generation, we have more friends than our parents ever did, and we spend more hours communicating than may be good for us, and yet it's for the most part just the surface.
One of the Facebook trademarks is the infamous "20 random things about me". That is the perfect example of how shallow relationships have become. People can't even ask me about myself, so I have to go on facebook to tell them 20 random things about me? Is that how your friends get to know you? Personally I would rather have some one ask me questions about myself rather than have them have to practically stalk me to find out that I don't like pickles.
I don't know if we just don't have time for people, or if we don't want to let them in and let them know who we are. But we have to remember that they are people. People that we can impact if we ever care to go beyond reading about how they hate the color pink.
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Right... but the thing is, how do you distinguish from prying? IDK... from my experience, some people would get all ticked off at me for asking about them. Life's so complicating... but thanks, that REALLY made me think!
::Jon::
Right. I would say that with a lot of people it's not about attaining a certain depth but about showing that you genuinely care.
If you are asking questions to just kind of get to know some one and spend time with them that would be more along the lines of showing them that you genuinely care.
Prying would be more of trying to find out information about them that would be more personal information.
I'm not sure if any of that made sense. :(
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