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[–] hitsuji_nanka@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Idk I took it more to mean "wow I don't want to start a deep, thoughtful conversation the moment I get home from work let me relax for a minute" while at the same time still wanting to talk to your partner. But I guess it's up to reader interpretation and I do seem to be in the minority here.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're not alone. I think people might be projecting their own reasons for liking/disliking smalltalk into this tweet.

[–] hitsuji_nanka@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just feel like a lot of people here are defining "small talk" as "a conversation that I don't want to have" rather than any meaningful definition.

I would consider stepping outside in the morning with your partner and stating "oh wow it's such a nice day today" to be small talk. It's a conversation without an end goal, sure, but I don't think it's as worthless as people are making it out to be.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, like, obviously if you define it as something like that you don't like that, but I don't think that's how everyone defines it.