conversations with strangers

Couldn't hold myself while reading the results from one study and finding similarities with engaging conversations in the blogspace.

: "(...) the normal unwritten rules of privacy and reserve are suspended - we are granted temporary `remission' from our conventional social inhibitions, and friendly conversation with strangers is regarded as entirely appropriate and normal behaviour." [from antropologi.info - Social and Cultural Anthropology in the News]

... in the study they refer to pubs in UK, in the begining of the sentence that i have deliberatly omited, so you could see my point ;-)