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Farmer ordered to pay after judge says thumbs-up emoji amounts to contract acceptance (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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[–] 14 points 3 years ago (12 children)

“I did not have time to review the Flax Contract and merely wanted to indicate that I did receive his text message.”

This is what the 👀 emoji is for, is it not? "I am acknowledging seeing this."

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    That's not really how 👀 is used these days among the young folk, but I wouldn't expect a random Canadian farmer to know that either.

    I don't think that a thumbs up emoji should be a valid signature. The farmer was responding to "please confirm flax contract" and the thumbs up emoji really could mean "I've seen your text and will look at the contract to confirm/deny soon." Although the article did also mention that the same type of acceptance had happened previously with this farmer where the contracts were treated as valid and fulfilled so the farmer is probably disingenuous with their argument.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I would use 👀 that way. What else would it be?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's more like "look at this shit"/"you seeing this?"/“whoa” for general stuff. Or sometimes with a slightly inappropriate joke or flirting the eyes acknowledge that and lessen it - like saying jk did back in the day.

    In this context if I sent a contract to someone younger and they responded 👀 I might have to doublecheck if something was glaringly wrong with it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Not according to dictionary.com which the judge referred to for the thumbs up.

    They should update the meaning, I also know it as a "read receipt".

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If I was going to read a text and respond to it later, I would just... respond to it later.

    Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    A lot of people hate being "left on read" where they see a programmed read receipt but aren't actually acknowledged. Or for messages without programmed read receipts it does that as well. The thumbs up is also supposed to end conversations quickly.

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