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[...winston]

Social media origins (been around for quite some time)
- saves/saved typing during IM's for acknowledges agreement, evokes shared
laughter, applause, emotion, and uniformly accepted/use across different
languages

Google took it a step further and institutionalized it with a button for
Google+
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1047397?hl=en


--
....winston
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"Ken Blake" wrote in message

Try a search for
"+1" in forums
and you'll see a lot of people's opinions.

Yes, thanks. I just did. But opinions are nothing more than opinions.

My own is that it means "I agree, and you said it as well as I could
have."

Yes, it clearly means that, but why use those characters and how did
it get started?

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

I think it came from one or more of the social media sites, such as
Facebook or Twitter.

Google Plus[/QUOTE]

It predates Google Plus - I believe it started on SlashDot.

 

[Ken Blake]

I think it came from one or more of the social media sites, such as
Facebook or Twitter.

Or perhaps a review site, such as yelp.

I rarely. if ever, go to those, so of course the above is a guess.

Since I've never been to any of them, you could be right, and that's
why I didn't know. But still, how did it get started?

 

[Ken Blake]

Google Plus

It predates Google Plus - I believe it started on SlashDot.[/QUOTE]

Another one I've never been to.

 

[Ken Blake]

My guess (or understanding) is that it means "plus one" using
mathematics symbols + (plus) 1 (one). So it would be something like - I
fully agree with you.

Yes, I suggested something like that in an earlier message in this
thread. See quote below.

 

[Ken Blake]

Social media origins (been around for quite some time)
- saves/saved typing during IM's for acknowledges agreement, evokes shared
laughter, applause, emotion, and uniformly accepted/use across different
languages

I guess I'm an old fuddy-duddy. I don't IM, and I prefer to use more
standard English, like "Ditto."

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I guess I'm an old fuddy-duddy. I don't IM, and I prefer to use more
standard English, like "Ditto."

+1

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

+1

Guilty as charged

 

[Ken Blake]

+1

LOL!

 

[...winston]

+1
....in this case it could mean 'Whatever floats your boat'

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....winston
msft mvp consumer apps


"Ken Blake" wrote in message

Social media origins (been around for quite some time)
- saves/saved typing during IM's for acknowledges agreement, evokes shared
laughter, applause, emotion, and uniformly accepted/use across different
languages

I guess I'm an old fuddy-duddy. I don't IM, and I prefer to use more
standard English, like "Ditto."

 

[Stan Brown]

Yes, thanks. I just did. But opinions are nothing more than opinions.

You do realize you're asking our opinions, right?

 

[XS11E]

I guess I'm an old fuddy-duddy. I don't IM, and I prefer to use
more standard English, like "Ditto."

+1

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

LOL!

It's little moments like this that keep me retuning to Usenet

 

[xfile]

Yes, I suggested something like that in an earlier message in this

thread. See quote below.

Yes, it clearly means that, but why use those characters [...]

My guess (or understanding) is that it means "plus one" using
mathematics symbols + (plus) 1 (one). [...]

 

[Char Jackson]

It's little moments like this that keep me retuning to Usenet

Most of us can use a bit of retuning now and then.

 

[John Williamson]

LOL!

I wonder what he'll say when someone replies <AOL> as the last line of a
post.

 

[John Williamson]

+1

Which actually predates IM, Facebok and Twitter by quite a few years.
And it doesn't mean the same as "ditto".

 

[Ed Cryer]

+1

Moi aussi.

Ed

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Another one I've never been to.

I've never been there either but have heard of it - most notably "the
Slashdot effect" where if a website got mentioned on Slashdot, it was
inundated with traffic that was often enough to overwhelm a smallish
hosting provider and take a website offline.

Back tot he topic, I found the following:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/+1

That appears to support my recollection that the +1 stuff originated
with Slashdot or a related forum. It was used as a voting method to
increase a post's score (or decrease, if -1 was used) which determined
how visible the post was.

--
Zaphod

"So [Trillian], two heads is what does it for a girl?"
"...Anything else [Zaphod]'s got two of?"
- Arthur Dent

 

[Bob Henson]

Moi aussi.

Ed

I didn't know you were an Australian?