Asking questions of close friends as we pass by them, which requires only a recognition of having been heard and not really an answer, such as "What's up?", is an example of what Harold Garfinkel would term "impression management."

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Harold Garfinkel would term this behavior as part of "ethnomethodology," which studies the everyday methods people use to make sense of their social world, rather than "impression management," which is a concept more closely associated with Erving Goffman and refers to how people attempt to control the impressions others have of them in social interactions.

Asking Questions of Close Friends as We Pass by Them