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Will the fist bump eventually replace the handshake?

It's more sanitary, harder to mess up, and it makes you feel cooler. The last two new employees to introduce themselves to me at work offered me a fist bump instead of a handshake. Will the fist bump become our go-to greeting?

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Hope so.

Hopefully it will. Everybody needs to learn to be a little more chill these days. It's the first step.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBI8uCKi2lI&feature=related

Yeah, and next thing we'll be using the 3 sea shells :)

I'd really like the hi-five to be on top

I'm not a big fan of physical contact, I enjoy my bubble plus my hands are weak, boney and usually sweaty. The fist bump is also very anti-formal which I'm strongly for, shorts and sandals are as dressed up as I want for any event. That's how I always greet my friends so I'm okay with it.

Next chance you get to go into a public restroom and just watch how many people walk out without washing their hands; you touch the door handle on the bathroom door, stall or zipper, toilet seat or urinal plunger and you want to touch my pristine hands, NO!

I wouldn't mind it. Some people try to break your hand when you shake theirs.

I hope not.

only if the exploding gesture can be tied into the end of it...though a good strong handshake never hurt anyone...cept someone with frail fingers...

I hope so. My hands get sweaty when I'm nervous, this could f*ck up job interviews if my hand shake is slippery.

I hope never. I'm just starting to master a very complicated Masonic handshake.

Next, it'll be that greeting they used in Spaceballs.

I rather hope not. I dig handshakes. There's a warmth in the embrace of a handshake that I don't get from a fist bump. The bump inspires a certain feeling of solidarity for me, but it's just not the same as a standard, old-fashioned shake.

The fist bump is also a very dude thing. Yes, chicks fist bump, but it's a dude thing, and even when chicks aren't being ironic by doing it, they'll admit that it's very dude. The same chicks often call each other dude, which basically rests my case right there. I love those dude chicks, for the record. They're good dudes.

Not everyone is a dude. Dudes must still communicate with the masses. Ergo, fist bumps cannot prevail.

I see the fist bump as more casual and something I would do with a good friend not someone I just met. I personally like the handshake you can tell a lot about a person by the way the shake your hand.

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Will the fist bump eventually replace the handshake?