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I use emoticons when texting (because I'm a graybeard), but my phone translates them into emojis before sending. So I've just taken to calling them all emojis.
Do you mean you use smileys like :) :( :P ? Emotions were the little images you could place amongst text in MSN Messenger.
I don't know where I read it, but apparently older people use emojis to feel 'with it' and cool, whereas the younger crowd barely use them. (I could be wrong, and I have no source, so don't quote me on this). Also emojis are yet another data point to do things like sentiment analysis, and have been weaponized by social media companies to target more relevant ADs at you. Tweeted/X'd the beer emoji? Get ready for Heine…
As far as I can tell the emojis thing is (has been) mostly a millenials thing, the zoomers are mostly on the side of AAVE-speak and such related jargon (the famous fr fr, for example, even actively avoiding capitalisation is now seen as a thing).
So, yeah, I'd say that the emojis have passed the peak of cool relevancy, hence why they're discussed on this quite boring forum by definitely not cool men in their late 20s and 30s (I'm a definitely not cool man in my early 40s myself).
I'm starting to find them emotionally manipulative in a bad way. FireFox settings should not be showing a sad-face emoji just because it's not my default browser. Especially when I'm using BrowserTamer[1] to intercept all URL launches so I can feed a few work URLs to Edge and Chrome, and FireFox as the default for everything else, so it effectively is my default browser. It's not the only piece of software behaving s…
I recently encountered a payment app at a restaurant that had a slider for adjusting the tip. There was a smiley face above the slider and it cried unless you set the tip to over 10%. (While usually expected, it's not socially mandatory to give out tips in my country.)
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You mean in terms of accessibility? The good news is that Twitter, err, X gifs already have built-in alt text. Apparently emoji aren't the greatest for accessibility: https://www.tiny.cloud/blog/emojis-and-accessibility/ It may be even worse for emoticons, so that's a legitimate criticism: https://uxdesign.cc/emojis-in-accessibility-how-to-use-them-...
What you written about lack of scalability of emoji for me is their advantege over gifs. To understand a meaning of a word/emoji/gif you have to see it in context several times or look up a definition. (with emojis and gifs there is additional problem in lack of dictionaries for them). When amount of words in a language is finite or they are extending slowly (emoji) I ma able to keep up with thier meanings as opposed…
What I mean by lack of scalability is that there is insatiable demand for new emoji but only finite Unicode code space for them.
This is has even become a social/political problem, because everyone insists on equal "representation" in emoji in terms of skin color, gender, etc. We couldn't just stop at Simpsons-style yellow faces.
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The claim was that Apple is giving someone a degraded experience. How is "Android user doesn't like their Android phone" evidence of a degraded experience for an iPhone user?
The reason why kids in USA don’t want Android isn’t the phones themselves but the way their messages get presented by Apple’s software. No teenager wants to be flagged as poor to their peers by a bright green bubble. Imagine if Microsoft had done this 20+ years ago when they were on top. All emails sent from a Mac would be displayed in magenta Comic Sans when opened on Windows. Wouldn’t that have been a blatantly ant…
The problem is that money based status competition is so rampant in America and this is merely an effect of it.
Emojis are used mostly in 2 ways: punctuating a sentence so that it’s tone is less ambiguous. A shortcut for an emotional state that is not dissimilar to writing “haha” “ew” or “meh”. As a IRC-chatting teenager in the mid-90s, I am somewhat an expert in emoticons and can’t possibly imagine a world where emojis didn't exist. But I m surprised no one mentions the “!” or other stylistic tools like all caps. These are “c…
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(And I completely agree with your last point ^_^)
Emojis in written text can lose their meaning in translation. Your intended meaning may not be what your audience understands, but I guess that’s inherent in most communication. I had a bunch of russian coworkers once, and one of them would constantly type “)))” any time I asked him a question. I thought it was some weird cyrillic keyboard quirk and never paid it any mind, until I learned it’s the approximate russian…
))) is just a beaming smile... derived from :) but without the eyes. Not exclusively Russian Separately, I remember years ago doing social media competitive audits and someone saw >>>>>> in there and thought it was errant text. E.g. "Taco Bell >>>>>>>". Of course what it means is Taco Bell is better than everything
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Web forums like UBB already had what we called "smilies" in 1998 with graphical emotive faces you could include in your posts, so that concept of image emotes predates the Japanese emoji. Making them part of the OS and character set so they could be used anywhere and not just on a web forum was what made them the emoji we know today, and what caused them to catch on. But now services like Slack and Mastodon have what…
You’re repeating the word “emote”, but “emoji” has no etymological connection to “emote” or “emotion”, it just means “picture character” in Japanese.
The name doesn't matter. Forum smilies also had a bunch of non-faces/emotions (my favorite was the "stink lizard" - still not sure what that was supposed to convey) but they're not interesting to the discussion.
I was a hold-out for quite a while, like the author, because they felt very twee. The one that convinced me though was the thumbs-up emoji, which can be an entire reply to an email or text, that says "I've read this, and we don't need to continue the conversation", with undertones of agreement or a thank-you. Somehow single-word replies like "Gotcha" or "Yes" felt too curt, and anything longer invited further discuss…
Also, in slack an emoji response doesn't need to be cleared (so it doesn't count toward a notification count). That is what got me on board.
Also, thumbs-upping the question, what does that even mean? It's a good question? I also have this question? The answer is yes? What if it wasn't a yes/no question?
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