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

You probably ask many of the people you interact with every day the same question: “How are you?” Yet this phrase, once a ...

How to Respond to ‘How Are You?’ When You’re Not OK

When she catches those words rolling out of her mouth—which still happens occasionally—she corrects herself and tells the ...
Yahoo

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 ...
Reader's Digest

The Surprising Way You Should Answer “How Are You?”—And Why It Makes Such a Difference

I recently asked an acquaintance how she was four times in a row. Here's how to avoid getting stuck on this conversational hamster wheel. While checking in at the gym the other day, I chirped, “Hey, ...
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 ...