50 Hilarious Conversations That People Overheard In New York And Decided They’re Too Good Not To Share (new Pics)

When you live in a city like New York, privacy is a scarce thing. Not only is the city busy squared, it actually has ears everywhere. That means a conversation meant for one addressee actually gets delivered to multiple addressees, even the ones who were not waiting for a message in the first place.

This is how New Yorkers become serial eavesdroppers, whether accidentally or purposefully. Mixed with a drop of guilt and secondhand embarrassment, the strangers’ conversations offer entertainment like no other and it’s obvious from the immense popularity of the Overheard NY Instagram page .

With 1.6M followers eager to scout the snippets of things people overheard in the streets of the Big Apple, you get a feeling this is a way to shed light on the locals and their lives. Scroll down, upvote your favorite overheard conversations, and be sure to check out our previous features on Overheard NY here and here .

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Texting has become the go-to way to communicate with someone who’s not in the same room as you. In fact, 23% of 18 to 34-year-old Americans say that they prefer texting over phone calls. But texting isn’t just about asking “How are you doing?” anymore.

There are full-blown debates, fights, and dramas happening in our texting apps. The “Meme Texts” page on X (Twitter) collects the most unhinged and random interactions between people for our amusement. And Bored Panda has collected the weirdest texting screenshots and is presenting them to you here. We really ought to think twice before hitting “send,” but have the folks on here done so?

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