- Joined
- May 14, 2019
I tend to have my face buried in a phone but sometimes when I can remember to I'll eavesdrop on stranger's conversations around me in a place like a restaurant. The kind of eavesdropping where you're not snooping on them, it's just that they're talking loud enough that you can with no extra effort pay attention to what they're saying.I like people watching and sociology. People really don't like knowing their behavior is far more predictable than they think it is. People stereotype themselves, and are shocked whenever you talk about how they are doing that. I find it all fascinating.
And I know this isn't what you mean, but I like people watching in the sense of identifying ethnic groups. I can usually predict someone's nationality or where they might be from pretty well. I like encountering someone and recognizing their facial features the same way a birdwatcher makes a game out of identifying bird breeds.