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Do you interpret a 👍 as a rude reply? (leminal.space)

submitted 9 months ago by Flamangoman@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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!!!

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It depends on what it's in response to.

Dinner at 6 at Greasy Spoon?
👍

Entirely reasonable.

Should we do the project in COBOL?
👍

Entirely unreasonable, but not rude.

My cat just died.
👍

Rude.

[–] Flamangoman@leminal.space -1 points 9 months ago

I guess I just picture a chat as a textual representation of a conversation and if I said to you, want to get dinner at 6, and you replied 👍 in real life, I would cancel the dinner lmao