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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone I know just uses the "like" as an acknowledgment of seeing the text.

As in:

Friend: "I'll pick your son up at 10am". 
Me" "like". [/quote]

Same. Or my brother sends me a pic of his new baby - who I have not yet gotten to meet, thanks to COVID - and I "love" it because that seems like the appropriate response. He knows I saw the pic, he knows I am having a positive reaction, what else am I supposed to say?

And to the PP: People are sending you pics of their food because they miss you and want to connect in a low key normal life sort of way. People being busy and living far apart made that hard to do before COVID. Now it's basically impossible. So we share small parts of our lives with other people so we feel connected, still. I'm sure if you told your college friend you don't like, love, or give two f*cks about her banana bread, she'd stop sending them. Or just don't respond - don't like or love the pics, don't ask a question - and she'll get the hint you are too important and busy for her little life.[/quote]

Do you get that...THAT IS WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS FOR? Social media is for "sharing small parts of our lives with other people so we feel connected." When I have some free time, I scroll a bit, and look, there's your banana bread. That's nice.

What's not nice is me having to look at my phone when it pings in case it is my elderly mother needing help, or daycare telling me about an urgent update, or my boss asking me to send him slides while he is in an in-progress meeting, and seeing your damn banana bread.[/quote]

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