Every time somebody sends me a thumb I take it as “whatever you say you fucking dumbass” and it pisses me off.
And ya, I’m aware that that the replies are going to be thumbs, let’s see em ya jerks!!!
It’s a pretty simple “acknowledged” to me. It’s a “I’ve not just seen your message, I’ve read it, and I have no further comments”.
I don’t think I’ve ever interpreted it as rude.
Nah, and to be honest it threw me off to hear some people interpet it that way. It’s always meant “acknowledged” or “I agree, no notes” to me.
If I wanted to be rude I’d do this instead: 👍🙄
no definitely not. but that’s probably because i don’t associate with people who think im a piece of shit
👍
I found it rude but not anymore and I have to really think about it. On facebook messenger, the default emoji is 👍 and during my stay on that platform (~2011-2017) it was regarded as a rude, low effort dismissal, at least inside my circles.
Nowadays, i double take and find that people don’t indent to be rude to me. After all, i’m not on facebook anymore and these people weren’t in my circle.
I give a 👍 on a reaction message all the time cause I’m too lazy to respond to it using words
Why waste word when 👍 do trick?
Reacting with “I agree” instead of 👍 in the reaction field can completely disrupt a conversation.
Personally i do. Same as the 😉 wink smiley… comes across as a bit of a cunt in my opinion.
Could be because there were shitty people that would use it in condescending ways at me.
Not really, maybe passive agressive at times, but I always see it as casual agreement.
The chat built into my hospital’s charting software has the ‘thumbs up’ react so you can quickly and easily show that you’ve read it. So for me it just means ‘heard’, ‘roger’, etc.
In a professional setting, it’s been a normalised acknowledgement, but socially I try to avoid it. Depending on the generation it can be taken the wrong way.
If it’s coming from my older coworkers, I know it’s meant well. They approve of whatever was discussed and are too busy to type out more, or its unnecessary.
If it’s coming from my gen z boyfriend, I have pissed him off.
in response to plans?
chill.
in response to something like a political opinion?
highly sarcastic.
👍
Oh wow. I thought only I had an issue with this.
Initially I did yeah, but eventually learned that different people use it differently. So good practice to never assume sarcasm through emojis unless you know the person well
GenX here. Shit, I do thumbs up frequently to confer agreement.
And I will indeed give you a middle finger emoji to say, “you fucking dumbass.”Millennial here, I use the shit emoji
Boomer here, what’s an emoji?
