I fully expect what the first reply to this might be.
I really do regularly
I use it IRL and have used the emoji I think once. So egg on your face, you fucking rube! You’ve never been more wrong bucko!
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Everyone i know gives thumbs up
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Same, even my young kids if I ask them a yes/no question while they’re eating to avoid talking with their mouth full.
I do
(sorry, not the first)
Wildly untrue. I see thumbs up every day.
I’m still using it as an “I got it” hand gesture; if i’m in the middle of some work and someone approaches me to tell me something while i’m busy.
i use it a lot… when im on the phone and someone pops in asking question only needing a positive response.
I feel like this is a you thing. I bet if you started doing it around people others would start doing it without realizing.
That might be true, or something local. I posted that this morning then got too busy to check in. I probably should have made it less about “positive/negative” and more about “it’s cool vs not cool” Here is my way too late OP explanation:
I go to a lot of sports events, hockey mostly. Since the 90s my friends and I play a little game. Count the people who give a #1 finger on the jumbotron vs point at their jersey vs thumbs up. Collectively, we have decided that ”kids today” don’t use thumbs up as much as in the past. I also noticed “Let’s go!” Is the cheer these days.
Sorry for oversimplifying my shower thought.
All good. I made a similar extrapolation the other day about pudding not seeming as popular because I wasn’t seeing people eating it or it advertised but after voicing my thoughts to a coworker I realized I’m probably just not anywhere near the target market. I’m not a sugar crazed child watching children’s TV networks and nor do I have kids myself.
But people do. I use it all the time.
Lots of things have suffered the same fate. Just think of LOL, 😂, or 🤣 for example.
People still laugh
Yes they do, but the text response doesn’t really reflect the actual one.
That’s very anecdotal, do you know any studies that investigate thumbs up prevalence IRL and online?
OP, where do you live? I get thumbs up all the time. Sometimes as a greeting, sometimes as an encouragement (e.g. during a run), sometimes even as a means of communication in traffic.
Western Canada. I was thinking maybe it’s like a soda vs pop thing. Or just wildly isolated to my own experience. Just showerthinking.
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