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 I’m less misunderstood and also adds some more feeling/fun to text content 😄
One emoji is fine.
Two if you want to underline your reaction.
Three is the maximum allowed by the cringe police.
After three according to the judgement of the Oratrice Mecanique d’Analyse Cardinale you belong to the Facebook boomer jail. Enjoy the nationalist/racist/sexist/lame minion “memes”.
When I see more than three laughing emojis a sitcom laughter is automatically playing in my head. It feels like being forced to laugh at gunpoint.
People who put the clapping emoji between every word should be taken to the guillotine.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands 👏👏
Because, emojis, breakup, the, flow, of, a, sentence, like, a, comma. Using too, many, makes, it, sound, like, you, are, straining, to 💩.
My dyslexic brain gets upset with this mid-sentence emoji usage. Takes much more time and effort to read and interpret.
Because you look like a ratchet ass ghetto idiot using them.
I interpret someone using that many as an idiot
“Why! Do users! Dislike! The use! Of emojis! On Lemmy!?”
Overused, they’re just so tiring too read. I think, if you’re gonna go that hard, just full send hieroglyphics and drop the text aspect.
Yeah but
🍐🍌🍋🍋🍊🍊🍎🍎🍎
🍐🍏🍌🍋🍋🍊🍊🍎🍎
🍆🍐🍐🍌🍋🍋🍊🍊🍎
🍇🍇🍏 🍋🍊🍊
🍎🍆🍇 😎 🍋🍋🍊
🍒🍓🍇 🍌🍋🍋
🍊🍎🍉🍇🍆🍐🍐🍌🍋
🍊🍊🍓🍎🍇🍇🍏🍐🍌
🍋🍊🍊🍎🍓🍇🍇🍐🍏But that’s art. That’s not what this threat is about
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.
You know many words in any language, are borrowed from other languages right? You just used a Japanese word when you said emoji.
It’s a loan word, it’s still English
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 😪😔🤥 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? 🤔
Just feels unfair to lump 🗨💣💨🤳 style emoji usage with “let me put 😆 to make it more clear this is a joke” 🥺 (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.
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 🤡” or 🙄 or 💀 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)
Because I’m a millennial semi-luddite who (typically) prefers emoticons.*
*Contrary to popular opinion, emoticons ≠ emoji.
:)is an emoticon, while🙂is an emoji. (Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. Lol.)(╯°□°)╯︵ 🤸
Lol, I like that. xD
(👁 ͜ʖ👁)
YES, emoticons are so much better than emojis!
They’re objectively not.
They are not objectively better or worse overall, though one or the other may be objectively better in individual contexts.
Individual people may prefer one over the other, though. I am one of them.
In what context where both are available are emoticons objectively better?
This one (o;)
For the same reason they don’t irrationally like the cyber truck.
They don’t know.
Excessive emojis make reading difficult. It’s just as bad as posts. That. Are. Written. Like. This. My internal voice pauses for ever period, likewise, I have to interpret every inline emoji. It’s mentally tiring, and while forums like this aren’t formal, when I see abused emoji use, I instinctively write off a comment or post as juvenile and low quality. I’m more inclined to skip reading it entirely because of the extra effort required and my pre judgement of its contents.
Tagging an emoji to the end or light use to help convey emotions is fine and intuitive. I personally like them for quick response and like you, to add a little more context to text where the “voice” may be missed.
