II. SEVEN SOCIABLE CONVENTIONS - Prospecting

There are certain topics that resemble news of the day in being always available for an update. These include the weather; sports; the stock market; TV; perhaps a movie or other public entertainment.

Discussion of these topics could occur as part of another convention ­ thoughtful appraisal; routine identity-maintenance; self-disclosure.

When one or more of these topics was used as a way of establishing connections among strangers, there seemed to be a different convention. The problem was given by the need to converse with others without knowing anything about them. The solution was to utilize topics presumed to be public, accessible to everyone. The object was not so much to explore the topics, which might not be particularly interesting in themselves, as to be able to communicate with strangers.

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