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VATupdate Newsletter Week 27 2023

KUDOS

Parents nowadays learn that it’s good to give compliments to their children, and to teach them that it’s ok to fail. And in any case, it’s always possible to talk about it…

Somehow, this sounds so… itchy. I won’t start a debate about good or bad parentship, or about how generations are raised and where it went wrong. Because I do understand the background of this. A little.

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It’s all about positivity. If you are encouraged to do something, you may like it. And if you like something, you will do it more often, and become good at it. For me, however, it stops at parents becoming too ‘pushy’, or where influencers think they are great because they have so many likes.

Use any social media platform and you know that it’s all about likes. Or kudos. Or hearts. Or thumbs-ups. The more you collect of those, the more popular you are. But it’s also a self-fulfilling prophecy: if you have many kudos, more people will see your contribution, and also like you. Which means, in my view, that the popular users remain popular, despite of what they do or say. And people grow-up, thinking that it’s all about likes. Instead of thinking for yourselves and having your own opinion.

Personally, I think that people should be more careful or thoughtful when it comes to giving and receiving thumbs-ups on any post on social media. Do you really like what a person says or does? Are you liking it for the content or for the person? Or just for the effort that was put into the post, even if you disagree with the argument?

With a recent court case in Canada, liking a post became much more serious. A judge in Canada has ruled that the thumbs-up emoji is valid as a signature and can be used to enter into binding legal contracts. The case concerned a farmer, who received a text message with the question if he could provide “flax” to several grain producers. He also received a scanned copy of a contract, to which the farmer responded with a thumbs-up emoji. The farmer explained that he only wanted to confirm the receipt of the message, but the judge ruled differently. The judge found that the contract was accepted and enforceable, and consequently breached. He awarded damages to the amount of CAD 82k plus interest.

Let that be a reminder to be careful when liking a post of your favourite influencer. Of course, it’s always ok to leave a kudo for us, the VATupdate Team. You can do that by sending us an email or simply liking our post on LinkedIn.

If you have any comments, questions, or ideas that you want to share with us, please send us an email at [email protected] or leave a comment under the posts of this newsletter on LinkedIn.


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