AIBU to expect people to introduce each other?

As a young ish person, I feel I haven’t been taught this!
What are the rules about introducing an older person to a younger person? Where can I learn this?

This uses to happen to me a lot, and in work people would talk to colleagues and then wouldn't introduce me. Now I put my hand out and introduce myself. 🤣

I am terrible with names, sometimes people stop to chat and I cannot actually recall their name right away. On the flipside its ok to just introduce yourself surely? This is what i do, ill just reach out my hand and say 'hi lovely to meet you, im 'mamajong' and just join in.

That said i am pretty sociable, I had an introverted ex once, not his fault,but at social events he wanted to be by my side all night and 'helped' into conversations - if I got chatting at the bar getting drinks for example he would moan that he was sat by himself rather than just chatting to someone else nearby.

We are all different but I would highly recommend just saying hi and introducing yourself.

I’ve voted Yabu purely because my DD’s bf castigated her the other day for not introducing her to two different people at an event. She had to admit that one of them she had no idea who they were and she couldn’t remember the name of the other one. I often meet people when out walking the dog and they stop to chat as if they know me. I then spend the next few days wracking my brain as to where I know their vaguely familiar face from

So I agree it’s polite but not always possible for the simplest of reasons.

I would assume that the person you met had had a moment of blankness and forgotten your a name.

I have a degree of face blindness - not total but bad enough that it has caused many, many problems over my life - but I didn’t find out what it was until a few years ago, before that I didn’t realise what was wrong with me. If I’m out with a friend I’d always introduce them to the person I meet, but only if I could recognise the person and be 100% certain I could recall their name correctly. If it was someone who I couldn’t recognise (or even work out how I knew them) or recall their name then I had to to learn ways around this and that would be something like making sure the person I’m with introduces themselves first so in return the other person would then introduce themselves to my friend/family member/partner/whoever, which would obviously mean then that I knew who they were, although I still often can’t recall how I know someone or even if I actually know them or have met them several times, particularly bad for me in group/social/organisational settings. Often, even if it was someone I knew relatively well I’d still be unsure enough in my head as to whether I’d get their name wrong (I have often confused people’s names with each other when in group settings, enough so that it became noticeable to others - either I would be calling them the wrong name or I’d get the names of two people mixed up, and it did become incredibly embarrassing which then made me have to avoid certain settings). But as far as I can I will always try to find a way to have the two people introduced if I can. Before I even realised I had a problem - it started becoming noticeable increasingly maybe about three decades ago - I would dread running in to people when out with dc when young when I’d usually get a “who was that, mummy?”! I honestly thought I had a bad memory for people, yet I had a good memory for virtually everything else - sometimes almost photographic for learning etc.
So, yes, I’d always try to introduce someone if I could but usually I’d have to make sure I prompted the person I was with quickly, if I could - only very few people know I have this problem though, so it wouldn’t always work, but honestly it wouldn’t be rudeness from my end if I didn’t manage it, but then it would cause me an awful lot of discomfort to be in that particular situation.

I always wonder about this. It seems common nowadays and yes, incredibly rude.

One of the many many reasons that I got rid of my ex husband is that he had form for doing this. He would take me to an event at the rugby club, for instance, and leave me standing there like a lemon while he chatted away. We didn't go out very often so I would have been there to support him. His excuse was always - I couldn't remember their names. However he COULD, I assume, remember mine! So he could have just said 'this is my wife Dilemma', and then left them to introduce themselves. If I could have got half a word in edgewise I probably would have just introduced myself but it's very difficult when you are on the outside of a group of burly men with their backs to you. Plus, at that stage I didn't want to highlight his rudeness.

YANBU. But, in the situation you describe, I tend to forget people’s names, so I can’t introduce them.

Yes, I think it's usual to introduce people in that situation. "Sarah, this is my friend Jo; Jo, this is Sarah, my colleague'.

Nothing worse than standing there like a lemon, i always introduce but have friends who don’t. It’s strange but I was brought up differently to them so must be that. 🤷‍♀️

I would always introduce people, maybe this person is just a bit rude?