Image of a screenshot of Twitter of a screenshot of Facebook.

The Facebook screenshot reads:

Fun fact about me: When I’m having a conversation with you, I will periodically bring up personal experiences from my own life, interspersed withing your own stories that you’re telling me. I’m not doing this to try and make the conversation about me, or to take away from your own experience. Actually, what I’m attempting to do, is to try and show you that I do, in fact, understand what you’re trying to tell me, and that I am giving your story my full attention.

It can really be off-putting to some people, so if I’ve ever done this to you during a conversation, I just wanted to make sure you know that I wasn’t trying to take over your story, I was just doing my best to connect with you in the moment.

The screenshot of Twitter reads:

This. I am fully aware that I do this. And I feel so guilty every time, but this. Understand this.

  • Dan@artemis.camp
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    1 year ago

    If you really have nothing to say, just ask for a bit more detail on something they said.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Just for the things that sound important to the other person, you can always ask things like “and what happened next?” “But why” or similar. Just a few questions that are open ended, so the storyteller is free to go into as much detail as they desire.