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It's nothing new, people have been saying it for at least a year to my knowledge. You hear it quite often when people are being interviewed on the news or asked questions on quiz shows etc. Like on Pointless the other night.
'What do you do for a living Carol?'
'So.....I'm a primary school teacher' 
These things are usually cyclic, I'm sure it will soon pass. Some years back a lot of people used to end sentences with 'Yeah' in a questioning tone as in 'I was on my way to work yeah? It was annoying because it implied that the listener was just as stupid as the speaker. Fortunately you don't hear it so much these days.
One thing in particular that puts my teeth on edge is people replying to the most mundane questions with the word 'Absolutely!' 
It's funny you raise this as I've been thinking the same for a few months now. This morning I actually searched for the issue on the internet and the issue has been going on for a few years now, but I'm sure it's got a lot worse.
Apparently Mark Zuckerberg does it all the time. Perhaps he's the one that started it. Starting a question with the word 'so' has been around for ages, but now people are using it to start answers.
"So, how are you feeling?" sounds okay, but "So, what we are going to do is......" just doesn't.
A similar thing happened years ago with people making statement and their voices raising a pitch at the end of the statement in the same way you would do so when asking a question. Apparently that started due to the TV show Neighbours when it was at it's peak in the late 1980's. Australians do it a lot and we just copied them.
I'm sure some other way of saying things will begin in the next few years..... "You, know what I mean?" 
Sorry to dig up an older thread, but I was watching the two leaders on TV last night and even the PM starts a number of sentences with the word "SO"
So, I wouldn't be surprised if I did it and don't even know it......... Oh know! Is it an epidemic? Is there a treatment programme? 
