Do you observe people?

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My mom told me how she observes people. She likes to sit and watch people walk by, what they have on, how they are behaving, how they are interacting, etc. but me, I don' pay any attention to people. I see them but I don't observe them. I don't watch what they are doing or pay any close attention what they have on, how they are interacting. Instead I would rather look at buildings, objects, cars, places, roads, side walks, anything that isn't living or go in my own little world and zone everything out.

I love people watching and especially staring at faces. People think it's rude and strange, so I try to control myself.

I no longer spend as much mental energy on this as I have in the past, but yes, I continually observe and study people.

Yes, when ever I go out I like to observe people. Although sometimes I stare too long and they notice

I like observing what mutual contacts post to each other on Facebook coz stalking is so easy to perform. It can be very addicting to study how they interact with each other online so I have a limit.

I'm also interested in hearing/seeing how NT people in my course talk to each other, however I'm not good at hiding the "eavesdropping" or "staring". What I usually do is pretend that I'm setting up my laptop etc just before a lecture starts, near the people who I want to hear, so they don't think that I'm actively listening to them. In fact I'm trying to listen to them while I'm setting stuff up.

I'm a life-long "people watcher." When I see a group of two or more people, I try to guess their relationship to one another. I even make up stories about their lives - where they are coming from, where they are going.

When I was stationed in Belgium (on an international post, with people from thirteen different countries), I used to love sitting at a little cafe at the base shopping center & trying to guess people's nationalities when they were in civilian clothes - based on the way they carried themselves & interacted with other people (and also on the way they dressed.)

Even though I'm impaired at reading non-verbal signals from people when I am interacting with them in person - I have learned (largely through being involved in the theater & also through many years of minutely dissecting movies & television) to read people from a distance.

I still feel like an anthropologist, observing an alien culture.

I enjoy people watching. I like to observe the vast variety of people, who are living in my area. Langley is a multicultural commuity that I'm proud to be a part of.

I did this all the time in K-12. I still enjoy doing it, but I have less opportunity to do it now. Mostly it's on the bus, but I try not to do that too much. It tends to make me misanthropic.

You'd be surprised the things people will say 5 feet from you when they think you're asleep.

Sometimes I observe their body language in an attempt to learn it with some success.

I like people-watching too, and it's pretty much the main way I learn anything about how to behave socially. Plus it can be kind of empowering, in a small way, to just sit and surreptitiously evaluate people - see who makes little mistakes, who looks like they'd rather be somewhere else, who looks like they've been waiting for a friend to meet them for far too long, etc. It can help me feel a little less inferior at times.

I watch cars. I over hear and watch people to. I might miss out on future story telling without watching things. I don't stare though.

I do it when I am sitting on a terrace. I also have a book about body language.

I do not engage in people-watching, although maybe it would be good for me to do so.

I got to thinking about this last night, while I was watching the news. They were interviewing people stuck at airports (or about to be stuck at airports, with the flight delays due to the storms) and when one guy was asked what he was going to do for six hours, he said something on the order of "Read, and watch people." I couldn't figure out what on earth the attraction would be in watching people, and then it slowly occurred to me that maybe I could learn something.

I people watch all the time and then wonder is someone is watching me too. I find group dynamics fascinating because they are such a mystery to me lol.

I've always felt I spent too much time watching the world go by instead of actively living life.
As for "people watching" my main interest is staring at women.