Small talk, like it or get bored by it?

Mercury

Me, I can enjoy small talk with friends sometimes, but find it quite boring and unrewarding to engage in lengthy small talk with strangers out and about, short convo's can be fun, but would rather have long meaningful discussions

what about you?

Roland787

small talk? whats that? that must be what theyre doing when i walk away from them...

Kysinor

Bored. If I have something important to say I will say it. I personally don't attempt to try to fill the silence with meaningless chatter. Not saying everything somebody say is meaningless chatter either but you'll notice the difference. Silence is just about okay for me and even if others are like that. Then again I'm introverted.

Trope

I have all of three smalltalk conversation topic starters that I use sarcastically when there's nothing being said in what 'should be' a conversation.

"How about that local sports team? They sure do suck this year."

"So how's the weather?"

"Did you hear about that recent political development? Those guys did it again."

Because of the timing and manner with which I use these phrases they rarely spark any sort of conversation, smalltalk or otherwise. It's more like throwing a rock down a well to see how long it takes to hit the bottom.

alizée

This, made me giggle. Inside joke.

matilda

I have this habit of skipping small talk (with acquaintances). Both sides end up disappointed.

Roland787

lol, me and my cousin say 'so how bout dose wings/tigers' whenever we're around my grandma and/or aunt and the conversation starts getting religious/political as a way to divert the conversation to anything but what it was.

vanWinchester

Small Talk. I *like* it when I have to talk to some bigass idiot, because I don't have to waste any effort to find a deeper topic or so; but I dislike it if a person is interesting and this is all they can do. I will always try to balance them and make them go deeper, but some people are just not made for it (and not to feed any stereotypes here, but I must say that a LOT of them were Ss or some self-absorbed INFPs. But that is just something I noticed; a trend. Not a rule. And neither does that mean that I will stay away from those people).

Small Talk. IDK, sometimes I think it would be better if it did not exist. Small Talk kinda translates to "I am just talking to you out of niceness or because I have to be polite". I'd rather just not talk to a person than having Small Talk. I am big on directness and honesty, and Small Talk is kind of "Fake Talk" most of the time.

I think if I ever randomly start to do *Fake Talk* with somebody who I had a great discussion going before; I must either be very tired, totally annoyed or highly fascinated; so much that I get dreamy. Normally I get myself out of that state again though (or I try to). If it is too bad I either go to sleep (tired); tell the person that they make me dreamy or - when annoyed - I just tell it to their face. Continuing the *Fake Talk* would highly upset me and go against everything I believe in.
Anyways. My 2 cents.

εmptε

I'm hypocritical here. I like small talk when I start it but not when I'm zoned into Ne or Imagination.

Roland787

i generally hate people so therefore do not enjoy talking to them period