Translations:Following Up Afterwards/6/en

It is also worth separating follow-up from continuation. Following up is a closing gesture that completes an interaction. Continuation is a separate decision about whether to meet again. Community experience suggests that people who treat these as one thing often feel obliged to overstate interest in order to be polite, or to withhold ordinary courtesy in order to avoid implying more than they feel. Both patterns tend to create confusion later.