being social

[postrook]

what do you guys talk about when you encounter someone nice with whom you share next to no/no common interests... and you want to have a nice conversation with them anyway?

I'm not very good at that sort of thing. my disability is probably mostly to blame, but that's no reason not to work at it...

[Hizumi]

always starts off with music

[postrook]

no one in meat life ever wants to talk about black metal xd

but yeah, that sometimes works if I'm talking to people who are actually interested in hearing new music and under 30.

[ApocaRUFF]

I'm a jackass. If we don't have something in common to talk about, I usually wont bother. It's to much effort for something that the other person doesn't even want half the time.

[Ronin]

If I met a stranger and this stranger started to chat me up about How I met your mother, I'd leave.

[kuturu4FA]

If I met a stranger and this stranger started to chat me up about How I met your mother, I'd leave.

lmao, "Do you like How I met your mother?"

Her comeback, "Asshole."

[.c64]

I nod and grunt. Then I tell my beer what a bitch they were.

[Oisterman]

Usually just local news or a story from something that happened to me. I'm usually with people I know though. Small town.

[Hizumi]

I'm a jackass. If we don't have something in common to talk about, I usually wont bother. It's to much effort for something that the other person doesn't even want half the time.

Why I pretty much do not want new friends. Too much time invested for it all to just go to nothing

[Chiyeon]

what do you guys talk about when you encounter someone nice with whom you share next to no/no common interests... and you want to have a nice conversation with them anyway?

I'm not very good at that sort of thing. my disability is probably mostly to blame, but that's no reason not to work at it...

well you must like (not really like-like) that person very much to want to have a nice conversation to him / her (without common interest)
If I were on your shoes, but the sad thing is I'm not really updated with what happening around me, tv shows, news, winning team on this x sports.. etc.. so this will be a 'huge effort' and might resolve to this one:

If we don't have something in common to talk about, I usually wont bother. It's to much effort for something that the other person doesn't even want half the time.

usually I'm not the first one to approach (I'm weak with this kind of stuff), so I tend to just *nod* all the time and smile (sincerely if I really think the person is nice).. and talk about what 'is happening' at that moment, usually nonsense things and too childish like a stray dog or the birds, or the ice cream is -- x_x nvm..

I'm very bad at this,
I blame the internets and myself for spending way too much time on it. I find it much, much easier to express myself through writing. Be it an SMS, an email or any chat programs. Ironically, I don't use Facebook. Ironic because I can barely have a normal conversation with friends but I have no problem chatting with them. Which gets weird, hah, it's like I'm a totally different person when chatting and when time comes to get on Mumble/Skype or whatever I'm nowhere near as social as I'd like to be.

exactly this.

but I do have facebook usually I use my FB accounts to lurk on hobby pages like Gundam Guy's, FJ's, and a lot of game pages.. I usually turn the green light off.. (appear offline)