どうぞよろしくお願いします

[ggenglish]

Anyone notice with learning material from the 80s that どうぞよろしく is what the chosen abbreviation to be taught was vs. よろしくお願いしまう?

Is this one of those 'sign of the times' things? Kinda like no one says 'far out' anymore or how my grandmother called me a 'noob' the other day? Or back then with the safety of the absence of the internet they'd hoped to hide the true 'cool' phrases of Japanese?

[QuackingShoe]

Huh?

どうぞよろしく is still plenty common, if that's what you're asking.

[Javizy]

I've heard よろしくです lately, but I'm pretty sure it's just used as a joke, since it doesn't seem to make much sense grammatically.

[Belton]

I've heard よろしくです lately, but I'm pretty sure it's just used as a joke, since it doesn't seem to make much sense grammatically.

It's slang, it's used by kids, is there ever much mainstream grammatical logic involved?
It would seem that Japanese don't agree on this usage either
http://kotonoha.cc/no/42563

[taikutsu]

Come to think of it, I don't think I've recently heard anyone ask "how do you do?" unless they were trying to be funny. Yet, it seems this phrase is regularly taught to ESL students. I think this makes a good point regarding the limitations of textbooks.

That being said, I hear よろしくお願いします more often than どうぞよろしく.

Now, to find out how do I do what exactly.

[QuackingShoe]

Relevantly, no one asks strangers if they're 元気 either. I've had a few Japanese comment to me that it freaked them out when they first started talking to foreigners, since they always ask that, but Japanese generally just ask that of friends they haven't seen for a few days. That is, it's not really all 挨拶. They ask it as a real question expecting an actual answer.