• emptiestplace@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    No, that definitely isn’t its usual purpose. We do it to soften otherwise mechanical interactions where there is no expectation beyond the exchange of information required to facilitate a transaction.

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      1 year ago

      Small talk serves multiple purposes, it does both things, not just one or the other.