New York Magazine published a cover story this week entitled,
Do You Know How to Behave?
Sounds like an interesting read, right? Most people think they already know how. New York framed it like this…
The ways we socialize and date, commute and work are nearly unrecognizable from what they were three years ago. We’ve enjoyed a global pandemic, open employer-employee warfare, a multifront culture war, and social upheavals both great and small. The venues in which we can make fools of ourselves (group chats, Grindr messages, Slack rooms public and private) are multiplying, and each has its own rules of conduct. And everyone’s just kind of rusty. Our social graces have atrophied.
We wanted to help. We asked people instead what specific kinds of interactions or situations really made them anxious, afraid, uncertain, ashamed. From there, we created rigid, but not entirely inflexible, rules.
Well, skimming through the article I agreed with a bunch and disagreed with about as many, but Instagram was REALLY set off!
The most commented on are about standing right after the plane lands, ghosting after one date and saying it’s OK to text, email, contact co-workers 24/7…
People were also not happy with not sharing your allergies with your fellow dinner guests, “no gifts” at a kid’s party meaning gifts are OK, and eating smelly food at the office among others…
