Starting a message/post/text/thread/email with the word so...

[PegsPigs]

It's becoming a real arrrgh thing for me! The number of posters who start their thread with 'So I've got...' or 'So my DH...' or whatever. I see it in MN, I see it on FB. It drives me nuts!

So (ha!) AIBU to get annoyed when I read threads starting with so?

Also, it probably annoys you because at some point you internalised a rule that you shouldn't start a sentence with a conjuction. But that is just so not true!

Yes, I think it may have been a New York thing originally.

There's a sense of summing up what's gone before or drawing a line what's gone before, isn't there?

I find 'obviously' when it's not obvious at all more annoying.

Mrs Frisby. You're right about sentence start, but even when so usproperly used as a a sentence starter, it is mid topic.
There's an arrogance aboytusing it to begin telling someone a story. It implies we should already party to the details of their life.
People who do this reminder of people who say e g. 'Sarah' instead of 'my friend Sarah' assuming that we know who they're talking about

Knickernicker that's how I see it about making the story seem like you need to sit down and strap yourself in for the story of the year. And it's not.

YANBU

Another annoying American import.

You see people being interviewed on the news starting every response with “so”. It sounds as if they think we don’t understand and are exasperatedly explaining it again. “Look” at the start of an answer is similarly irritating.