Well said.I'm calling BS on this survey.
“81 percent of emoji users believe that people who use emojis are friendlier and more approachable.”
Really. But that turns out to be a lie, because in actuality…
“65 percent of emoji users said they were more comfortable expressing emotions via emoji rather than a phone call.”
So in fact they’re more distant and detached. The survey says otherwise, because it sounds nicer.
So there’s a narrative that articles like this reinforce without any exploration of the apparent fact that it’s a *false* narrative. This is like when newspapers do surveys about what readers would like to see more of, and it comes up as editorials and hard hitting investigations, etc. But actually people read the sports, comics, and obits.
This survey is aspirational. And it's BS.
I used emojis too, of course. I have maybe 10 that I use, and it's mainly the ones seen in this article. Beyond that they become a barrier to communication. Emojis are like perfume. A little might be nice, but there *definitely* is such a thing as too much. Or maybe it's like someone having a flower in their office, vs someone whose every flat surface has flowers, kittens, cartoon babies... there's a difference between approachable and cloying.
I often wonder if we are growing as a people...or in fact, regressing
- Amalthus, Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Pfft. It sounds as if you have issues. I use emoji in several languages.
Emoji provide a shorthand for expressing emotions, body language, or facial expressions that cannot otherwise be readily conveyed via impersonal text communications. I still properly capitalize and punctuate my text messages, but I also use emoji when appropriate to punctuate a joke, express affection for my wife, or give one of my kids a virtual hug.
Emoji provide a shorthand for expressing emotions, body language, or facial expressions that cannot otherwise be readily conveyed via impersonal text communications. I still properly capitalize and punctuate my text messages, but I also use emoji when appropriate to punctuate a joke, express affection for my wife, or give one of my kids a virtual hug.
I suggest that you and the other emoji curmudgeons subscribe and listen to the Pessimists Archive Podcast: A History of Why We Resist New Things. All of the episodes are great, but this thread reminds me of a few in particular: Episode 1: The Walkman; Episode 2: The Good Ol' Days; Episode 3: Recorded Music; Episode 14: The Novel; Episode 16: The Telegraph; and Episode 18: Kids These Days.I am so glad I am old and lived through a time when people actually spoke to each other over the dining table and wrote letters, using the alphabet.
We are on a fast track to nowhere. Dumb does not even get close to describing where we are as a society.
I don't understand how this site hasn't added emoji support to its forums yet.
In seriousness, I use emojis when contacting people in my organization that I have never met. That way they get the right tone of humility and friendliness, rather than cold hard demands from someone they don't know.
58 percent of emoji users said they're more likely to open up an email from a brand that uses emoji in the subject line,
I agree I hardly ever use emojis over text, but I do like using them in titles of things. Like some of my group messages names use emojis, just makes it more fun, it does take longer to use than typing, but for a title it can be worth the time.I'm so old, that in my days, they were called emoticons or smileys, and they were entirely made up of punctuation marks.
But to be honest, I don't get the whole emoji craze.
Seriously, when would you ever use an emoji depicting garlic? Or butter toast? Why would you ever have to use those? Since when is typing "dog" slower than opening up the emoji panel and scrolling through a quadrillion of emojis to find the one that looks like a dog?
- Use of anything but the classic smiling, sad, or laughing one is highly ambiguous and I have no idea what you're trying to say (like if you send me a gorilla or one expressing a complex emotion, like crying but laughing but also wearing glasses and riding a shark). Like, what are you trying to say? Why don't you just write it down instead?
- Using them often makes you seem childish and immature, equivalent to TYP1NG EVERY7HING LIKE TH!S111
Andy Rooney must be spinning in his grave. To me, it's a pointless keyboard interface getting in the way.
Radical idea here, how about use a set of emoji that combined can create something that, well we can call a word, and by putting lots of emoji together you get lots of words that make a sentece.
Let's call them letters, and allow people to express themselves in a manner other can understand ....
I know it sounds wierd, but we can create a keyboard for them to make it easier, this would totally change the world.
I also have a slogan : "26 emojis, always in your pocket, express yourself!"
They did![]()
After Thousands of years worth of human language development..... we are now regressing back to cave paintings.
Emoji users think emojis are great - no **** sherlock.
What a waste of pixels
Emoji are neither a cause of nor a sign of the decay of youth, communication, or civilization more broadly.
Andy Rooney must be spinning in his grave. To me, it's a pointless keyboard interface getting in the way.
OMG how dare MacRumors even think about adding more emoji! Thanks a lot - we’re going to miss out on news because of adding more emoji.I don't understand how this site hasn't added emoji support to its forums yet.
When talking in person we communicate with words, eyes, hands, tone of voice, posture, gestures etc. If we talk at the phone we still have voice (tone, volume, mood).
Do some of you genius have a working alternative to emoji to express all the emotions words can’t convey alone or you just criticize for the sake of criticize?
And no, words can’t convey everything, unless you spend a lot of time picking every word and punctuation sign of every sentence *and* someone has a very good grasp of writing and language. Is not exactly ideal if you want to have s conversation, isn’t it?
The difference being these are not replacing our language, they are an addition to be more expressive, if you want to use them. They are also universal and while you couldn't write an entire sentence using emojis you could express something to someone that doesn't speak the same language as you.Forget apple being doomed we are. lol![]()
In seriousness, I use emojis when contacting people in my organization that I have never met. That way they get the right tone of humility and friendliness, rather than cold hard demands from someone they don't know.
If I received a business-related email with cartoon embellishments, I'd be insulted that someone though I needed to be addressed like a child. Would you send an email with emoji to a superior?
As a side note, courts are having difficulty interpreting the implied meaning of emoji in company emails that are submitted as evidence. Imagine if an employee included "kissy face" emoji in emails to a coworker of the opposite sex? They could be a smoking gun for a sexual harassment claim even if that was not their implied meaning. If I were an employer, I would ban their use.