SURVEY: When you ask "How are you?", how often to you mean it?!
Question: Or do you ask for the sake of asking, since you haven't seen the person for a long time?
Answers: Or do you ask for the sake of asking, since you haven't seen the person for a long time?
If it's a good friend of mine, I mean it with all my heart and I truly care. If not a good friend of mine, a quick answer would work fine - but please don't go into a 15 minute rant about your life.
Just asking, nothing really personal.
hardly ever...
i always mean it. i don't talk to them if i'm not interested.
I always mean it, if I don't want to know or aren't interested I don't ask
I ask because I mean it and I want to know.
Every time. If I wasn't interested, then I wouldn't ask.
I always mean it and if the person is not fine I will listen to why they are not fine. Usually I dont ask questions if I dont care about the answer.
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I mean it about 50% of the time.
When I say it now, I really mean it, after suffering myself some hellish things, and still suffering myself right now.
Its manners so its usually just asking
When I get asked that question, I just reply: "I'm better than nothing."
If a person is sick, I will ask, I really mean it then. If a person has gone thru a trauma, I mean it then too, In any mind or life altering situation, I mean it.
The rest of the time I will say ,your are looking great, well, good
like hell, awful, etc. Depending on how close I am to the person
at my job i have to ask and mean it (it's a nurse thing) otherwise i'd say it's a 50/50 crap shoot.
I don't ask, unless I want to know.
depends on with who you are talking to?
personally actually kind of 80% I do care.
I like talking and if you really pay attention you will see it isn't that boring.
people doesn't listen most of the times because they don't care not because the subject isn't that important...
Of course I mean it. Why would I ask if I don't?
I live in Thailand and don't speak thai. No other people around here speak English. So when I meet someone that I can converse with , I really mean "HOW ARE YOU"!
i mean it generally BECAUSE i havent seen the person im asking in a while
very rarely do i mean it, its like you say it so often that its almost like im on auto pilot when i say it, it dosn't require thinking about it just automatically comes out like " hi how are you doing ".
'Hi, how are you ?
I'd like to think that I ask with sincerity but perhaps not with concern. I think I only ask when I am interested in that person even if I do not know them, otherwise hello, hi or whatever is an ok greeting. Perhaps with some older friends( 60's) or aquaintances I'd ask with more actual concern as to their well being. Have a good day.
If I'm close to the person then yes I really meant it. Like recently I haven't spoken to a person for almost a month and when we did chat a few days ago, i really meant it. I was wonder how was that person doing...
But usually its just for the sake of asking, lol
95% of the time. People would be surprised though cause I'm a cashier. (:
Sometimes I do it cause things get quiet after scanning so many items saying nothing but an empty, "Hi."