My download and upload bandwidth rates are not equal.
I can handle an info dump, but if you try and tell me about your day I’ll fucking kill myself.
Just drop into screensaver mode. You don’t actually have to retain what they say. They will enunciate keywords to remember. Just nod and think of samurai pizza cats or whatever.
Or communicate that you aren’t listening. I would want to know, as the speaker, that my words are going in one ear and out the other.
Im the exact opposite of this meme please infodump at me :3
I sometimes end up, what started as small talk, in these long talks with strangers opening up to me. Most people need to vent so I ask follow up questions, but after trauma dumping on me, which I’m super interested in, they get to a part of a story I’m bored with and I feel bad telling them: Ty for opening up completely to me, a random stranger, but you’re boring me now so…bye.
Actually having to listen to a real person who can tell when you aren’t paying attention is so much more taxing than pretending to absorb information from a screen.
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