# You guys, do you start Facebook posts with "You guys..." **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808 "2015-06-18T00:32:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/1 "2015-06-18T00:32:42Z")
I’ve noticed in the past week or so a trend on Facebook where people start posts with “You guys…” As in “You guys, look at this boil on my thigh” or “You guys, my son is breakdancing” or "You guys, I’m on a boat! Anyone else notice this? Or do this? ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/2 "2015-06-18T01:36:34Z")
Haven’t noticed it. Personalization is the key to Facebook success? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/3 "2015-06-18T06:44:19Z")
Only thing that comes close to starting with “You guys” is the Electric Company. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/4 "2015-06-18T10:10:07Z")
Mostly what I see is the tendency to start every post with "So, " Can no one write a simple declarative sentence these days? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/5 "2015-06-18T11:18:55Z")
So, you guys never notice this? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/6 "2015-06-18T11:33:16Z")
Perish forfend. If Facebook friends began to use such vernacular I would begin the process of finding a higher quality of Friends. Standards must be upheld. (I am bothered more by the pr0n and sunglasses spam. Why sunglasses? Is it because they are easy to counterfeit and ship?) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/7 "2015-06-18T11:53:41Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Mostly what I see is the tendency to start every post with "So, " Can no one write a simple declarative sentence these days? Guilty as charged.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/8 "2015-06-18T15:38:31Z")
I haven’t noticed it. Is it from friends in a certain geographical location, or of a certain age group? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/9 "2015-06-18T15:57:45Z")
I have noticed it and am guilty of saying “Hey folks, …” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/10 "2015-06-18T16:05:11Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > I haven’t noticed it. Is it from friends in a certain geographical location, or of a certain age group? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/11 "2015-06-18T16:08:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/12 "2015-06-18T18:11:13Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/13 "2015-06-18T18:32:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/14 "2015-06-18T21:06:59Z")
I’d be much more inclined to start an update with “Y’all” but I don’t even do that. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/15 "2015-06-22T18:45:01Z")
I use both “you guys” and “so.” I can’t actually find any recent examples, but both phrases just kind of make it feel more like a casual conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/16 "2015-06-22T22:45:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bb49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@bb49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bb49)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/17 "2015-06-23T04:57:47Z")
Real men don’t do Facebook 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-do-you-start-facebook-posts-with-you-guys/722808/18 "2015-06-23T10:27:24Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Mostly what I see is the tendency to start every post with "So, " Can no one write a simple declarative sentence these days? OK, so you guys, I generally see something a bit different. No prizes…😉