[hyperpape]

I wonder if there's a difference of social context here. I feel like "tell me about yourself" would come off as very pretentious to a lot of people.

That said, I've never really tried. Do you literally say "tell me about yourself"?

[JumpCrisscross]

> Do you literally say "tell me about yourself"?

Yup! Or “what’s your story?”

[hashwithrice]

I agree that it comes off as pretentious to a lot of people if you open with that in any normal context. I think the right context for it is if you are expected to be sharing life stories, e.g dating, interviews, networking and stuff like that. I think Terry Gross gets away with it in other contexts because she's a famous interviewer.