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Out With The Middle-Finger And In With Thumbs-Down, Says Gen Zers

Morty March 16th

We’ve all had that one incident on the road where someone cuts you off or things aren’t going the way you want on the roads, you took your anger out by throwing up the middle finger!

The middle finger was that universal hand sign to let someone one else know they messed up or pissed you off. The middle finger given showed your disapproval of the situation on the road.  Gen Z’er’s are now using another finger to show their disapproval. They’re throwing a big thumb’s-down instead!

They’re saying by throwing a thumbs-down, it makes more of a statement of disapproval than the middle finger. We’ve all used a  “thumbs-down” emoji on social accounts. Showing our disapproval of a post, video, or photo. Most of us use it to spite a person who posted. That in turn will upset the original poster. So now they’re taking the hand motion to the streets!

If you don’t think the thumbs-down emoji or hand signal has any backing, think again. Apparently on TikTok, the hashtag #ThumbsDown has gotten over sixteen-million views and growing! So it’s known that when you get a thumbs-down of any kind, you’re being disapproved on. That will trigger people!

Using a thumbs-down hand signal has more power to make people feel disapproved or rejected because it’s opposing signal, the thumbs-up was usually used to tell someone sarcastically that they’re being rude or hostile. So the Gen Z’s have stopped using the thumbs-up signal and flipping it upside down!

Are you one that will still throw the middle finger up on the roads? Or will you shift with the times and start throwing the thumbs-down instead? Either way, you’re sure to still piss off someone on the road with it or at least show them your disapproval of their actions on the road!

We have more on this story and others in today’s edition of a Few Things You Should Know!

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Do You Know Your Social Media Abbreviations?

Social Media Abbreviations are a whole language now.

This might wind up being a test, to either make you feel old – or young if you nail it.  Below are the most popular abbreviations people use online.

Millennials and Gen-Zers of the world have taken technology and run with it, which is understandable considering they are the ones who grew up with it literally at their fingertips. They are natives to the worlds of technology, whereas the generations before them are all immigrants to the world of technology.

Do you wonder why so many things are abbreviated now? Believe it or not, people didn’t start abbreviating just to look cool. It actually started because of social media character limits.

Twitter is especially known for this because the platform used to only allow up to 140 characters in a single tweet, leaving lost tweeters to figure out how to make their messages short, sweet and to the point.

As Twitter was mostly being used by millennials and Gen-Zers in the beginning, they started to create their own language, with abbreviations. Twitter now allows up to 280 characters in a tweet, but the abbreviations aren’t going away any time soon, because they have become their own language.

Sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with all the latest slang, but I’m here to help!

So, here are some of the most popular internet abbreviations that are commonly used online, and definitely in text messages, so you don’t have to keep scratching your head in confusion every time you get a text from your kids.

If you’re paying attention even a little, you probably know a lot of these.  Like LOL – “laugh out loud,” (no Aunt Mildred, it’s not “lots of love,” but thank you!) and FYI means “for your information”

Great start! But how many of these other ones do you know?  Here’s a ranking – we’ll start out easy, then get a little harder.

-Carla Rea

  • DM

    Direct Message

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • JK

    Just Kidding

    Social media abbreviations

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  • BRB

    Be Right Back

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • TBH

    To Be Honest

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • IRL

    In Real Life

    Social media abbreviations

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  • NSFW

    Not Safe for Work

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • TTYL

    Talk To You Later

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • NBD

    No Big Deal

    Social media abbreviations

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  • IMO and IMHO

    In My Opinion and, In My Humble opinion

    Social media abbreviations

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  • FTW

    For The Win

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • SMH

    Shaking My Head

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • IDK

    I Don’t Know

    Social media abbreviationss

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  • IDC

    I Don’t Care

    Social media abbreviations

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  • MSG

    Short for the word “Message”

    Social media abbreviations

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  • OMW

    On My Way

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • G2G

    Got To Go

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • TFW

    That Feeling When

    Social media abbreviations

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  • MFW

    My Face When

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • ILY

    I Love You

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • IMU

     I Miss You  (Yes, a ‘U’ even though the word “you” starts with a ‘Y’.)

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • ICYMI

    In Case You Missed It

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • SRSLY

    Short for the word “seriously”

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • TLDR

    Too Long Didn’t Read

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • BAE

    It actually stands for Before Anyone Else.  (Bae is also just short for “baby” or “babe.”)

    Social Media Abbreviations

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  • SOML

    Story Of My Life

    Social Media Abbreviations

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