You might have a point. It happens in writing all the time. As I move around the globe constantly, I often join facebook groups to find out about the place I’m going to.

So I’m relocating from Portugal to Ireland in a month and I wanted to know if I could post on a particular site because I wasn’t in that exact location. I explained that Portugal wasn’t working for me, so the stuff was virtutally new. It’s a yes/no response.

I then got all sorts of information. The one that made my daughter and I laugh went something like this:

“The best way to post your information here is to have a photo of every item with your price, then have an open house. I did that, and I met lots of new people and made lots of new friends.”

As if everyone doesn’t know how to post pictures, and more to the point, as if someone wants to make new friends in a country that they don’t like and have people over while there is a virus in plain sight.

The reason behind it is not so much wanting to hear one’s own voice, but the desperation to have acknowledgement of one’s life. When people ‘help’ others, they feel that their life has some wealth. They are also acknowledged by others as having something worthwhile to say, and they know too little to realize that others know it already. Dunbar/Kruger effect.