Like what is up with people, like saying “like” constantly in like every sentence.

Like WTF

It has been going on since the 1980s. I think less of people who do it.

Its a "placeholder" because they do not know what else to say. I use to say "umm" a lot as a kid, and my dad broke me of that. Would stop me every time I'd say it, and tell me to just take a brief pause instead of saying "umm"

With any other speech pattern that is observed by people it becomes part of one’s own speech overtime

Social media and the Internet has made people more connected, young people who are impressionable have more access to people using “like” and generally sounding dumb. Therefore just via consumption the speech is adopted as their own

Really no different from kids who’s parents use profanity excessively for no reason, so in turn they do for no reason

Realize this is longer and more logically thought out explanation than you wanted with your original post

Anyways 3.50

I remember valley talk in the 1980’s used “like” a lot. Also Alicia Silverstone talked like that in Clueless. I’ll give her a pass though for being cute!

More than 20 years ago, I broke my two teen daughters of saying "like" a million times by repeating it back to them.

"So you like, want to like use my like truck to like go shopping for like prom dresses?"

In less than a week, they stopped.

Literally is the word that is being obnoxiously overused now. Gen Zers say it entirely too much.

I think it’s really “Bro” now.

This is primarily a liberal thing.