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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're having a conversation with someone who doesn't ask you questions, are you supposed to just offer the information about yourself?

For example, we might be having a conversation where I ask some question.They talk for a while in response but then we get to that point of the conversation where they might turn it back saying, "How about you?," or "what's your experience?" they don't. And I tend to not volunteer personal information unsolicited but instead talk more generally about what they just told me.

It occurred to me that there's a lot of people I know a lot about who know basically nothing about me. Should I volunteer more? How?[/quote]

OMG I could have written this post. I find people who don’t reciprocate questions so puzzling. [/quote]

As a person who will definitely ask how are you back, I feel extremely uncomfortable asking personal questions. Perhaps it’s cultural but besides the normal questions, I rarely dig and and go beyond and get irritated when others make me feel like I’m in an interview by asking too many follow up questions.[/quote]

I don't think you need to get too personal in a casual chat, but if it's starting to feel like an interview, you night need to try harder to ask open ended questions that will allow the other person to talk more.[/quote]

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