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Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one’s interest in the topic has waned.
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Many people dread small talk (not us, now tell us about your vacation plans). Human connectivity researcher Georgie Nightingall says it can be a way of building deeper connection, trust and curiosity. “You can actually realize that you do want to know more rather than having that sense of like, I’m just asking for the sake of asking,” she told Vox. Here are some tips on how to improve your small talk abilities. We want to know, how do you feel about the art of chitchat?
I want to take a moment to thank everyone for the boosts, favourites but especially the replies over the last year! I've been on Mastodon for a little over a year and made a lot of GREAT friends, learned new things and seen many awesome animal pictures and beautiful landscapes with the sun rising or setting.
Thanks again and let's keep social media social in 2024!🙂
(I bring a sort of “#Everyone has inherent #worth regardless of their productivity” Vibe to every #conversation that #ableists don’t really seem to like)
Sometimes, briefly, I miss my days as an influencer online. That was never my plan, but as you know, the former Twitter used Algorithms. The more engagement you made, the higher your presence became. My followers have always been higher than the amount I follow. The more I follow, the less I see, caught up in a fast moving stream of (mostly garbage) ReTweets. #ENGAGEMENT is not Boosting or Liking, it's responding, dialogue, comments, and conversation. #Influencer#Klout#Twitter#Gifts#Thread
Ever wonder why I only follow HALF the people that follow me? The other half are #BOTS
PROVE ME WRONG?
I don't want followers. They followed me. I want engagers, and real people, and I miss the perks of being an Influencer but I give all that up, to meet real people, not empty Accounts.
Reconsidering foundational relationships between #ethnography and #ethnomethodology and #conversation analysis – an introduction (by Eisenmann, Meier zu Verl, Kreplak & Dennis)
In Twitter, I had mastered the lists.
here, I'm a little bit late, I had been off my PC for 6 months and I don't do well on mobile devices.
I've been setting up my NEWS, FRIENDS, CHAT MOST, those type of lists, making it easier to find people. #Mastodon#Lists#Sorting#Setup#Cats#Conversation#News#Humour etc
The Israeli state is starving the people of Gaza and I don’t know how to wrap my head around the horror of this.
I watched Asad do this to Syrians for years and it is a horrific way to die. People with diabetes will die first, in agony, and then children and the elderly.
💛 “Contained: The Problem with Creating Boxes around People”
OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 5 No. 36: Editor’s Letter, When My Best Friend Was White, The Conquistador Smackdown, Lessons from Black Teachers of the Civil Rights Era, and a quote by Shirley Chisholm.
This week’s editor’s letter by @SherryKappel is extraordinary. Check it out.
💛 “Contained: The Problem with Creating Boxes around People”
OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 5 No. 36:
This week’s editor’s letter is extraordinary. Check it out. It’s so tightly written, there is no single sentence to pull that does it justice. The articles included—all keepers!
She scolds me about not buying anything in the bar we hang at
Greetings....