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> It's been interesting to see how personal Americans have gotten on

> LinkedIn these last 6 months. It seems absolutely acceptable now

> to tell people you’re not feeling so great after all.

I barely used LinkedIn until my latest book came out in September. Like you I was surprised by how much more like Twitter it seemed than before. And that has been my guess: as many folks left Twitter, LinkedIn absorbed more of the personal sharing than before.

> One of the first things I learned when I moved to the US is

> that when someone asks "How are you?", don't actually tell them.

I was born here and I've always found this strange too. In NYC, where I'm from, we'd greet people by saying "Was up?" but it was not something you're actually supposed to answer. So why not just say Hi or Hello? :) Culture is so strange and fascinating.

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