ASL please

I am not really sure when or how we humans landed in a world where we all are so damn curious to know what goes on each others' lives. A stranger whom we come across in the elevator, in the neighborhood or  in the office, as soon as we get acquainted, we instantly jump into questions about their age, marital statuses or their reasons for something they do in their personal life. I wonder why we humans have this constant urge to know the 'ASL's of people around us. People of my generation who have entered chat rooms and chatted with strangers in a quest to find that perfect love, probably would know 'ASL' - the three things the whole human race is curious to know of each other - age, sex (this is in the virtual world; maybe in real world, this could be counted as sexual preferance or relationship status) and yes L for location - which part of the world/country/city they are from; so that we can relax about knowing everything about them. The irony is not that we ask about the ASLs to everyone around; but the irony is that we ask only these and judge the rest ourselves...