🌈☔🌦️🍄🌱🍉4d ago

So there is this thing about minimal hugs someone needs... At least 4 preferably 8 or more. [1]

Assuming you like hugs, how many a day are you getting?

#hugs #polls #lonelyness

[1] https://www.restonyc.com/how-many-hugs-does-a-human-need-a-day/ this isn't actual research as far as I know.

8+
4.3%
4 to 8
9.6%
1 to 4
35.1%
less than 1 day.
51.1%
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Show thread🌈☔🌦️🍄🌱🍉4d ago

Looking at the results do far, there could be a real and serious hug shortage.

Assuming there is and especially if it applies to you, what tactics are you willing or wanting to deploy to remedy this?

#hugs #community #lonelyness

Go out and offer free hugs
18.5%
cultivate hug behavior in friends group
74.1%
medicate
3.7%
invent a hug credit (tm) system (with blockchain;)
3.7%
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Show thread🌈☔🌦️🍄🌱🍉

So we have a serious perceived hug shortage. Luckily, many people are cultivating hug behavior in their friends groups and some are out on the streets helping out strangers and them selves 🎉. Good job!

Not everyone likes hugs though, and we might have these in our friends group, we still might want to support them. How would you handle that?

#hugs #polls #community

Vocalize how much we appreciate them even more.
63.6%
Ask&try different forms of physical contact
31.8%
Offer medication
0%
They have to find different friends... ❤️‍🩹
4.5%
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Mar 21 at 8:35amWeb
Show threadAmy2d ago
@wmd so.... I would describe myself as "weird about hugs". I think my mom tried to push them too much on me as a child or something. Not sure what I really want though, its not that I dont desire hugs sometimes, and these days I try to practice them sometimes. Either way I think it depends a lot on my mood, how safe I feel about the other person, how I am approached about it, and probably some other factors I dont fully understand myself yet.
Show thread🌈☔🌦️🍄🌱🍉2d ago
@amy hmm, I dont think there is anything weird about wanting hugs, not wanting hugs, having a manual for hugs, being alternating about hugs or not even knowing what you want with hugs. All perfectly fine states of being.