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Yeah I love small talk
Not really. I don’t like meaningless chatter. But I know it’s important especially when getting to know an acquaintance.
Also I know women generally like silly banter especially in dating. Laughing and acting goofy releases feel good brain chemicals. Even Marilyn Monroe once famously quoted “if you can get a woman to laugh you can make her do anything”
I have to be in the right state of mind to act that way. It just doesn’t come naturally to me. I literally have to manually force my brain to tease, kid and laugh when conversing with a woman I like. Once I am in the mindset I can comfortably keep doing it. But again it’s not usually my initial thought process.
FORD method. Talk about Family, Occupation, Recreation, or Dreams. Gets people talking all of the time. However if someone is shy or just a loner, you won't get them talking. So maybe you are not bad at small talk you have just run into people who don't want to talk. LOL. But if someone is willing to talk, use FORD and then reciprocate your own stories, you will have conversations for hours. But if you run into someone like me, who is very private, it's not going to work. I am very careful about who I talk to and what I talk about.
I am terrible unless I rehearse it in my head prior to it happening, which is impossible in many cases since small talk sometimes occurs in unexpected scenarios.
I am not good at all, but somehow people either don't seem to mind it or they ignore my awkwardness.
I get better and better socially the more time I spend around people I don't know that well though.I hate small talk, I prefer my conversations deep and meaningful. Could I carry a small talk conversation long enough for it to escalate into a deep one? Yeah absolutely, but if the other person isn't allowing it to escalate into an interesting conversation and we only just met its probably the only conversation we will ever have.
I was terrible when younger, very good now.
Christ changing my heart opened me up and gave me a reason to care about others rather than being in fear. ones perspective changes everything.
Oh I'm a pro at that lol.
Smalls talks are my forte haha
But as soon as the talk turns to the opposite I become a listener than a speaker. All I do is nod and give expressions saying yeah I'm here hahaNot really. I tend to talk too much.
Pretty good at the small talk, I prefer longer conversations that allows me to get to know someone though.
I'm extremely awkward with small talk and prefer avoiding it altogether. I prefer getting right into deep stuff.
What I've discovered about small talk
And "putting your foot in it"
Which i have done numerous times!
Is that it's more important where your heart is, than thinking up the next funny thing to say
In other words if you are well meaning in the broadest sense, you don't need to fear saying the wrong thing.
Maybe I'm going off topic🙂I am good.
My social skills are far better in real life.
I've gotten better, id say the best advice would be have a few go to topics already and whenever you meet people you gonna small talk with, you use these topics, just make them valid tho, weather talk boring 😆
I think I could be good at it.
But I have no intentions to waste my time; or that of others.When I talk to people I feel out the type of person they are when we talk and then I just go along with maybe that's messed up I'm not too sure. I like avoiding conflict if possible
Honestly no, that’s why I try to pick dates where we are actively doing things so small talk is kept to a minimum.
At least until we sit to eat or drinkWith friends and people I know and like. Storytelling.
Let me tell you about when I was approached by the bear in my campsite...
***yawn***I have some trained phrases for patients but generally I use language as rhetoric or suggestion
I would say no, I think if I was I would attract more girls but I pretty sure I come off as awkward during the small talk.
I hate them. Just as Mia said.
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