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SPACE: Personal Space (written 2006.10.30 to be updated)

What distance you are from someone, is important.

Everyone has a "Bubble", a personal space.

Anything within 18 inches is very personal.

http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/elong/100%20new/Nonverbal.htm says.......

INTIMATE: from touch to approximately 18 inches from another (personal bubble)

PERSONAL: 18 inches to four feet (close friends and relatives)

SOCIAL: 4 feet to 12 feet (business meetings and formal social gatherings)

PUBLIC: 12 to 25 feet or more (public speaking situations)

http://www.usm.maine.edu/com/EVT/tsld007.htm says........

Space Expectations (territoriality)
personal space

intimate space (0-18 inches)
e.g. love-making and wrestling

personal distance (18 inches to 4 feet)
e.g., protective sphere or bubble distance

social distance (4 to 10 feet)
e.g., impersonal business

public distance (10 feet to infinity)
e.g., the distance set around important public figures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_space says........

Quote: "People may feel uncomfortable if the distance is too large (cold) or too small (intrusive). It may be due to the limited available space, different cultural standards, physical intimacy, interpersonal relationships, or some form of rudeness"

Quote: "While it is highly variable and difficult to measure accurately the best estimates for personal physical space place it at about 24.5 inches (60 centimeters) on either side, 27.5 inches (70 centimeters) in front and 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) behind for an average westerner"

Anything within 18 inches is very personal.
Recently (written 2006.10.30..00:48 am), the past 2 months, some people in public places have been walking right up to me and putting their head within 12 inches of my head, thats kind of Rude, kind of Too Personal, and kind of "cruizin for a bruzin", a bit too close.

What ever it was, didn't last more than a couple of months. Must have been something on TV, affecting peoples personalities (I don't have time to watch).