They're great! Obviously they can be annoying when overused (unless as a joke), but I would never want to go back to a world without emojis. ๐
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Because, emojis, breakup, the, flow, of, a, sentence, like, a, comma. Using too, many, makes, it, sound, like, you, are, straining, to ๐ฉ.
Huh, never understood it till now. 100% how my inner monolog read the title.
Do add to your point making all those movements while talking make you seem crazy.
Imagine if every language in the world used the exact same alphabet, exact same words with the exact same spelling, and exact same sentences but the meaning of those words/sentences varied from person to person, region to region, in different contexts, and sometimes changed day to day. Then on top of that, the words even rendered differently from device to device.
Additionally, there was no way to look up what those words meant to the person writing them, who you don't even know. Even if you ask for clarification, there's less than 50% chance they'll respond at all, let alone provide a sincere, meaningful, and accurate answer.
That's what emojis are like to me. Sure, some of these same complaints apply to text-based communication as well, but emojis take it to the extreme.
I don't typically care that much if people use them -- for instance, to reinforce the meaning or intention of their message. But it's mildly annoying when the emojis are a message all of their own and that person is trying to communicate with me.
Additionally, there's an extremely high degree of correlation between people and messages that use a bunch of emojis and actual quality of the message/meaning being sent. In other words, if someone's using a lot of emojis to communicate, I can pretty much completely disregard anything they have to say because it almost certainly holds no value to me. And that's okay.
So maybe in a broader sense, comments/titles/descriptions with lots and lots of emojis is annoying similar to seeing advertisements at the top of my search results and interspersed in the front page posts. It's useless drivel that mucks up the experience.
And even to use your description as an example:
I don't understand at all how that emoji is necessary or even insightful. It seems completely contradictory to the "But seriously" at the start of the sentence, it doesn't seem like anybody with any degree of reading comprehension would mistake what you're saying as being something negative/nasty/mean/hurtful/etc so it's like if I ended my sentence with "and I'm currently chewing gum". Okay, nice to know I guess, but why would I need to be told that?
well yeah if the person writes ๐ช๐๐คฅ it's not clear what they mean, but this poster gave an example sentence that's pretty unambiguous, and is using the emoji as a tool to make it even more unambiguous, are they not? ๐ค
Just feels unfair to lump ๐จ๐ฃ๐จ๐คณ style emoji usage with "let me put ๐ to make it more clear this is a joke" ๐ฅบ (also sometimes it's just what the writer is feeling, rather than trying to be clear communication)
Perhaps. I'm not chewing gum anymore right now.
Yeah but those jeans ๐ณ
Yeah but those jeans ๐
Yeah but those jeans ๐
Yeah but those jeans ๐คฎ
The point of the emoji at the end was to "add some more feeling/fun to text content," like if I ended a comment with "I couldn't stop smiling while writing this." It's irrelevant but it changes the flavor of the text.
Besides that, many lemmy users are on the spectrum and will read "Donald Trump is known for his great border policies" in a comment that it's clear they're joking, and they will still have -5 score and comments arguing with them until the poster says "it was a joke." Compare that to "Donald Trump is known for his great border policies ๐คก" or ๐ or ๐ depending on how obvious you want to be. It's just a tool that can be misused or annoying like anything else.
This actually is a good point and is one of the reasons that overuse of emojis can be annoying for some folks. Basically it boils down to the fact that a lot of people using them don't use them effectively or in a way that provides any "value" to the reader.
For an otherwise clear and benign statement, a grinning emoji to signify that the writer wants their statement to be "fun" isn't particularly useful, relevant, nor insightful for the reader. At best, it comes across as unnecessary filler like an ad at the end of a sentence. It makes no difference, it's just there for the writer's own pleasure. Nothing wrong with that, but hopefully you can see that it would be annoying for some folks.
On the other hand, using emojis effectively, like putting one after making a sarcastic statement provides insight and meaning to people reading. In other words, it has value for the audience, provides useful context. A lot less annoying to people when they actually derive some benefit from it.
One issue is, a whole lot of people don't recognize this and/or don't care.
Yeah I think it's just some people are not trying to "communicate" rather they're just doing it because it's fun for them (and some others). Sort of the "talking because they like to talk." I used to also be pretty annoyed by it but I had a friend use them all the time and sort of just got used to it. Even if it did still annoy me I don't like to ruin someone's fun, so I'll just be a bit mad and carry on (and then complain to other people it annoys)
I am sorry ๐๐ but with all respect to you and Jose I consider match not played โโ๏ธ๐ because yoo many (stock)fishy things happening! ๐๐คจ๐คข๐ Long night watching video recording ๐๐ฅฑ๐ฝ๏ธwill check why timer and chesscom clock showing such a considerable difference in lenght of the games ๐จโ๐ป๐๐ฐ๏ธ, will let everyone know ๐จโ๐ซ๐ฌ
there was no way to look up what those words meant to the person writing them
I like them used sparingly. There's art to using just the right emoji in the right spot that conveys a message in a way that is difficult to achieve with text.
Because "muhh, back in my day on irc there weren't emojis and zoomers use them on tiktok so they're baaaad !!!1!!11!"
Because some people are afraid to have emotion
We can tell you probably have an emotion if you use one, we just can't be sure what emotion. The emoji you type is almost certainly not the one we see.
One thing I really hate is when people use that clap emoji between every word to try to solidify what they're saying.
Doing that, or saying "full stop", etc. doesn't make me trust what you're saying more. Explain why what you're saying is correct. Use words, logic, and sources.
use that clap emoji
If people are clapping between words like pre-schoolers singing about Bingo the dog, it's not accidental. It's a last resort to prevent our phones auto-correcting everything to the phrase "you dumb motherfucker".
I agree, though -- 'full stop' is just jargon and useless like 'literally'.
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