Translations:Setting Expectations/4/en

Because adult social life within apps and communities often moves quickly, expectations frequently remain unspoken. This article looks at what setting expectations involves, why it is often described as protective for both parties, and where the emotional cost tends to appear when it is skipped.

| Understanding=At its core, setting expectations is a matter of shared information. It concerns the practical frame of a meeting rather than its content: roughly how long people intend to stay, whether anyone else will be present, whether the meeting is a conversation or something more, and what each person considers a normal ending.