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    1. The conversation became awkward when the topic changed to discussing the death of the friend's brother. This occurred over text messaging rather than in person due to the pandemic. 2. The conversation took place on the author's birthday, so they felt guilty celebrating while their friend was grieving. They also recently lost a sister on the same date. 3. The author, who had only recently become friends with this person, felt uncomfortable providing comfort over such an intimate topic via text with someone they didn't know well. The lack of nonverbal cues also added to the awkwardness.

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    1. The conversation became awkward when the topic changed to discussing the death of the friend's brother. This occurred over text messaging rather than in person due to the pandemic. 2. The conversation took place on the author's birthday, so they felt guilty celebrating while their friend was grieving. They also recently lost a sister on the same date. 3. The author, who had only recently become friends with this person, felt uncomfortable providing comfort over such an intimate topic via text with someone they didn't know well. The lack of nonverbal cues also added to the awkwardness.

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    Gabriela Feliz

    Mr. Koutsoutis

    Fundamentals of communication

    December 14, 2020

    Final Paper

    1 - Recall a conversation that became awkward when you or the other person deviated

    from the social norms that manage conversation flow. Was the awkwardness at the beginning,

    end, or during a topic change? After reviewing some of the common norms discussed in the

    chapter, what do you think was the source of the awkwardness?

    In this essay, I'm going to discuss about a conversation I had this year that became

    awkward when the conversation changed to a delicate topic. The conversation was more one to

    one communication than to face to face conversation because of the quarantine we were

    communicating with each other via texting rather than talking in person. We were classmates

    until we realized that we had a friend in common and after that we became friends, I got to say

    that this friendship started this year. My friend prefers they/them pronouns so I'm writing this

    with their preference in mind (just making it clear).

    This conversation happened in Abril on my birthday, but my friend didn't know that it

    was and I didn't have the heart to tell them after the topic delicate was brought up. Prior to this

    conversation we had haven't talked for a few days since we were focusing on school project work

    that was due soon. I knew that their brother was sick, but I didn't know of what but they just told

    me that their brother was really sick. I'm not sure what day it was but it seems that my friend's
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    brothers have died from brain damage and they told me that on my birthday. I tried my best to

    comfort them as much as I can but the conversation just turned awkward from that on for me. It's

    really difficult to try to comfort somebody when the conversation is delicate and is via a phone

    and not to fate to face.

    I thought about the reasons why that conversation turned awkward for me and I have four

    or five reasons why it was awkward. First is that even though it was on my birthday I was trying

    my best to enjoy my “special” day when I was pretty much feeling depressed for a while after the

    quarantine started, more than usual. Secondly, is that I was trying to celebrate my birthday when

    my friend was having a bad time and after knowing that I just felt guilty for the rest of the day.

    Another reason it was awkward for me is that a day before my birthday it was my sister's

    birthday who has pass away in recent years so I was feeling sad while I was trying to enjoy my

    birthday. Finally, the last reason is that after the conversation ended I was left anxious because I

    didn't know if my words comforted them or not, because I can relate to their situation but I was

    too scared to ask, and before I know it the conversion topic has changed so I didn't want to bring

    up the topic again and possibly making them uncomfortable.

    I believe that the source of awkwardness was the relational context and the social context.

    I wasn't it a lot of time that we became friends so I didn't expect them to tell me about such

    personal and intimate information. It was just about months that we became friends but we didn't

    interact a lot with each other because of our class schedule, we just shared one class that I will

    always be late to. We didn't interact a lot in person but we would still communicate with each

    other via texting. I just didn't know how to comfort someone with who I just made friends with

    and I barely knew things about them.. Since the conversation was while we were texting each

    other I couldn't see any verbal or non-verbal communication so I don't know how this person
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    reacted to my words or see how they were feeling, I just knew that they were in grief for their

    loss.

    What I just discussed is a conversation that took place via phone-texting and not face to

    face to the person, we communicate via phone because of the pandemic but is still a conversation

    I just that is not in person. The conversation became awkward because the topic changed to a

    delicate topic that is the topic of death, not everybody is comfortable talking about such a

    delicate topic because in a way or another death affects us in our environment. I'm not used to

    talking about such intimate and personal information with a person I just recently met and didn't

    have time to spend with them or hang out together. What affects me the most about that

    conversation is about the relational context more than the social one, since I just started that

    friendship I didn't think this person would choose me to talk about that such topic, but before we

    have this conversation this person has told me that they feel comfortable talking with me and

    now consider me a close friends. Overall I think the only one who felt awkward about the

    conversation was me and not knowing how the person was feeling let me anxious. I just learn

    that conversation in person is really different than communicating via phone more if is just

    texting, even if we are communicating via phone call I would at least notice the tone of voice of

    the person but texting is just completely different and sometimes confusing when things aren't

    clear.
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