If you can open this website -- https://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Saying-the-Word-%22Like%22 -- it will clearly explain how the word "like" is so badly misused in today's spoken English. You will sometimes hear people saying "like" incorrectly several times in the same sentence! Examples: “We spent, like, $500 at the mall today.” <<<<WRONG “You need, like, someone who really understands English.” <<<<WRONG "I was, like, so happy to see her." <<<<WRONG There are only two correct uses for "like": when you are expressing enjoyment, or comparing two similar things. "I like to eat Chinese food." "She is a lot like her mother."

Like often used as a verb, like doing something. For example. i like reading. and like can be used as : for example, such as. this meaning in oral communication I did a lot of homework, like Chinese, English. hope useful to you

Are you asking about any particular age group/country? Do you have any examples? There is/was one age group that used it a lot. We/I don't really use it other than the literal meanings. I suppose the main use would be something like 'for instance'. ;)