So, like, oh my god I totally decided to see how many times in a day, like, people used the word "like" in their sentences. Now I, like, didn't count the number of times it got, like, used properly in a sentence. So only, like, instances when it got used as a pause break in a sentence were, like, counted. And the answer is that it got used HELLA times. 95 times in the course of an 11 hour day to be exact ( in the interest of full disclosure- the last eight times came from watching three minutes of "Real World, Road Rules Challenge" on MTV. I turned it off when I realized it would artificially skew the numbers).