Submitted âšâš2â© âšmonthsâ© agoâ© by âšHottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.comâ© to âš[deleted]â©
Ok, the title was an overuse of emojis as a joke. But seriously, I like some limited use of emojis because it helps me convey intention/emotion so that Iâm less misunderstood less and also adds some more feeling/fun to text content đ
I think it might just be the old creeping in. Kids like emojis, and they werenât around when we were kids, so it is new and strange so I donât like it, etc.
Lemmy has a lot of grumpy old folks so it just comes with the territory.
Odd because why would such people switch to a new platform?
Because they didnât like the direction Reddit was heading I guess? But I donât know the full answer. Iâve just noticed that Lemmy seems to skew older than I would have expected.
Maybe itâs just reflecting the demographics of the tech-savvy open source enthusiasts that might be interested in such a project? Are there young people with such interests still? And if so where are they?
Iâm also old, just not as grumpy as some, so I donât really know what the young people are up to nowadays. Most I know in person seem to be on TikTok and instagram but thatâs not the tech crowd, if theyâre out there somewhere.
I like them used sparingly. Thereâs 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.
Overuse of emojis can also really be annoying for people using screen readers. They clapping hands get clapping hand to clapping hands hear clapping hands something clapping hands like clapping hands this. So itâs also an accessibility issue.
That seems like a limitation of the screen reader than anything else. It needs to either translate those more succinctly or just ignore them.
How would you tackle that? Unless you build a really intelligent system thatâs allowed to interpret and reword and understand the significance (or lack thereof) of emojis in context, it sounds tough. Like, generally speaking, you just wouldnât be able to tell how important an emoji is to the message, when writing an algorithm.
I do them anyways ignore the downvotes live your true self ââ¶đ
Bring forth the holy hand grenade of Antioch!
Made me go and check, but surprisingly lemmy doesnât have an emojipasta community
I would have thought that one would have made the jump
At the font sizes I tend to view text in, I can read text clearly but emoji just look like blobs. The details are so small that ALL of the faces look like yellow circles.
There are so many emoji, many of them with only slight differences between them, that they render each other meaningless.
So many of them are being used as something else and keeping up with their actual meaning is just not worth the time.
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Emojis make reading slower because youâll pay attention to both emojis and text , and analyze it
Because some people are afraid to have emotion
We can tell you probably have an emotion if you use one, we just canât be sure what emotion. The emoji you type is almost certainly not the one we see.
I grew up with forums where emoticons were substituted with smiley images (on badly coded ones, â8)â turned into âđâ even when it was just a parenthetical ending with the number 8 or the eighth point in a bullet point list). I use emoji approximately when I would have used those smileys, it is a good thing theyâre now standardized, but other than that I find them unnecessary and distracting.
Because CoOl KiDs DonT UsE eMoTIcOns
I thought they didnât look at explosions!
I donât mind them when used appropriately, but remember that us old people may struggle to make out which emoji were looking at when the text is small.
To my eyes it also looks out of place in professional writing, so I would find it hard to take you seriously if you use emojis in such a context.
TL;DR: in a casual context, go nuts, but avoid for important communication where clarity and professionalism matters.
Because you look like a ratchet ass ghetto idiot using them.
Thatâs a fucked up way to say they distract you from reading text
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To be fair, i dislike them everywhere
Even from the before times
It definitely depends on the instance, but as a whole itâs probably a bit of carryover culture from the other place where emoji are not generally accepted.
Ngl i use emojis whenever too, i dont think anyone âhates themâ, ive seen other people use emoticons too [eg, â:)â]
Because âmuhh, back in my day on irc there werenât emojis and zoomers use them on tiktok so theyâre baaaad !!!1!!11!â
Iâm sorry if theyâre a emojoomer and hate progress
I think that might have moved over from Reddit.
From what I experienced, Reddit mostly has the same hate towards emojis.
Using one or two occasionally to convey emotion or humor is one thing, but theyâre neither words not punctuation marks. Using them as such is not just annoying, but actively disrupts the rhythm of the words youâre reading - especially if theyâre plunked into the middle of a sentence or clause. Itâs like saying âI love HEART cheeseburgers.â Go ahead, say it that way to somebody in person and see how they react.
I havenât specifically seen anyone go off the rails when it comes to emoji usage on Lemmy; I can only comment on my particular feelings about emoji: Like any tool, emoji can be used in ways which are confusing. However, the value of these little images conveying additional context to written text is useful. There is so much of the personal voice which is lost with written words, unadorned with body language, tone of voice, and facial expressions. Emoji are like a written solution to this issue (for those that donât pick up on context on words alone). I am fine with the usage of emoji.
I predate emojis, they never really caught on with me.
I thought lemmy got an emojipasta community when I saw your post đ
omg đ can you đ«” imagine đ§ ?? that would bee đ crazyyy đđ€Ș
Yeah. This is what I can NOT get behind, and I responded in approval of emojis! You already said the words, why add the pictures?
For the same reason they donât irrationally like the cyber truck.
They donât know.
Itâs mostly just a snobbish âget off my lawnâ response based on the popularity of said emojis on platforms popular with the youths. đŠŸđ§đ«Ž
I donât have any fundamental issue with emojis when theyâre used to expand meaning or provide clarity. Eg you could use an emotive emoji to show/clarify the intent/emotion of something. Imo, using emojis in this way is no different than the practice of adding a â/sâ to denote sarcasm. When they get annoying is when theyâre used superfluously. If they serve no purpose, then itâs just clutter.
If you can find mine it was hilarious when I did a similar thing XD
Itâs funny because I love them to death on slack. I think I prefer emojis as reactions rather than inline text. Also if you put them in line it can f*** up search
slazer2au@lemmy.world âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
You only speak one language in a sentence right? How often do you switch between languages in a single sentence?
Emoji are pictograms the same as east Asian languages are pictograms.
Shadow@lemmy.ca âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
You know how many words in any language, are borrowed from other languages right? You just used a Japanese word when you said emoji.
Wilzax@lemmy.world âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
While true that the term originates from Japanese, itâs important to note that emoji is a loanword that has been adapted into english by changing its pronunciation subtly, and replacing its spelling with a phonetically similar one in an alphabet not used in Japanese.
This is similar to when words and phrases are used without much adaptation in the middle of sentences that are otherwise in a different language. Thereâs a certain je ne sais quoi about English and how it mixes loanwords (such as âcalqueâ), calques (such as âloanwordâ, where individual parts of the word are translated then recombined) and entire unchanged terms (such as âje ne sais quoiâ) freely, and to varying degrees depending on where you are and who you talk to.
Kaboom@reddthat.com âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Itâs a loan word, itâs still English
slazer2au@lemmy.world âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Ik ben talking about using geen common words in a sentence.
That was a weird sentence right? Emoji has a common use in English where ik,ben, and geen do not.
Wilzax@lemmy.world âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
East Asian languages arenât pictograms. Most use phonetic alphabets. Among those that donât, very few characters use visual resemblance to convey meaning, and no language uses primarily pictographical characters.