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From KQED.

The From KQED. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Here's a question before us this morning.

Do we know too much about those around us?

Maybe it's a co-worker who overshares, maybe it's just someone in line at the grocery store

who divulges their entire romantic history between the beeps of the checkout gun.

Etiquette, as it was once known, and polytests, as the high-minded might have called it, has broken down.

And there's a lot to celebrate in the explosion of conversational norms

that kept people's truth from being brought into everyday conversation.

But, as an Atlantic essay notes,

if society-wide norms have loosened,

that means individuals have taken on the burden of navigating their own boundaries.

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