Not really. I just searched Facebook for the terms “you guys,” and aside from the friends I already knew about, posts popped up in the search results from MLB, Buzzfeed, Cosmo, The Ellen Degeneres Show, SEVENTEEN, and Sony Mobile starting with “You guys,” before going into the actual content.
I remember seeing an interview with Arthur Godfrey, in which he pointed out that a famous radio broadcaster would always speak as if he was talking to a huge audience of people, which never made any sense to Godfrey because, although he was talking to a lot of people, he was only talking to two or three people, listening to any given radio, so he always spoke as if he was just talking to one other person.
I try to do the same thing, even when I’m writing to all you guys.
No. I pretty much only post when I’m having a particularly hard time or, more likely, when I have something funny or cute to share that I think my friends would be interested in.
I think I would only use “you guys” as a parody.
Examples of my posts:
I don’t feel good today. Really bad. Please pray
Because it’s too cute, that’s why: (baby bubble butt video)
I wouldn’t mind if people said “you guys” but I do kind of take offense to “Hey Facebook friends” because everyone I’m friends with on FB, I’m friends with IRL. Like…can’t we just be addressed as your friends?
Could be tho that a lot of people collect Facebook-only friends and that is generally how they view their audience.
Ours start with “you all” or “y’all.” Sometimes “yuuns” as in “you 'uns,” with more than a few being “yuunses” (have never seen anybody write “you ones.”)
If anybody started with “you guys” the collective thought would be “You’re not from around here, are ya?” and we’d wait to see what the heck you were up to.