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30 minutes with a stranger

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1103 points MaxLeiter | 3 comments | 04 Sep 25 05:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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willemlaurentz ◴[04 Sep 25 07:55 UTC] No.45124782[source]▶
Following the book "The Power of Strangers" I once did an experiment with talking to random strangers, it is amazing what you'll learn from random conversations: https://willem.com/en/2023-10-13_hello-stranger/
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hackboyfly ◴[04 Sep 25 08:21 UTC] No.45124941[source]▶
I would like to do that but I live in Sweden, talking to stranger is considered rude. Would be cool if there were a serious version of those random cam chats like omegle.
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1. skeezyboy ◴[04 Sep 25 09:16 UTC] No.45125250[source]▶
> I would like to do that but I live in Sweden, talking to stranger is considered rude.

you all sound like a lovely bunch. is this a modern thing?

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2. kruffalon ◴[04 Sep 25 09:45 UTC] No.45125411[source]▶
Not who you asked, but no, old ingrained cultural thing!

The trick is to trick us into not realising we are interacting, then we are quite friendly and polite :)

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3. skeezyboy ◴[04 Sep 25 11:03 UTC] No.45125855[source]▶
> The trick is to trick us into not realising we are interacting, then we are quite friendly and polite :)

i dont think you can be friendly and ALSO dislike talking to strangers. I think thats what it means to be friendly, or at least its a necessary component of it