'How Are You?' Has Lost All Meaning. Here's A Better Way To Greet People

The stakes of treating “how are you?” like a throwaway greeting are higher than you might expect. When the question becomes ...
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35+ Ways to Respond to a "How Are You Text?" (Beyond the Basics)

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oliver Rossi/ DigitalVision via Getty Images No matter what kind of app you're using to chat, you can pretty much expect that ...
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How Are You? There’s a Good Chance You Might Not Even Know

We tend to run our lives on autopilot, barely aware of what we do or feel. Maybe it's time to take charge. Six tips to get ...
NBC New York

6 things to say when someone asks ‘How are you?' and you're absolutely not ‘fine'

Unprecedented times are starting to feel like the new normal. What we need to get through these times is social support. But in order to receive it, we have to stop "surface acting," or feeling ...
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12 Thoughtful Questions That Go Far Deeper Than "How Are You?"

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. "How are you?" is the lowest-hanging fruit in the tree of caring questions, and it's the one that will ...