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 😄
My dyslexic brain gets upset with this mid-sentence emoji usage. Takes much more time and effort to read and interpret.
Are you using the opendyslexic font?
This font is awesome, and I cannot fathom why Apple will not let me use it even in the Books app, much less anywhere else.
Father Apple protects us from all wickedness , including autonomy and any choice unconsidered by Him, mhm.
I’ve always found it annoying, can’t speak for the rest of the Fediverse.
I think of them like swear words. Not on-the-internet swearing, but public swearing. To use their full power, words like “fuck” need context and - more importantly - discretion and frugal usage.
Overuse of emojis is even easier and harder to look at. But when used right, they serve a purpose. Otherwise it’s “Why the fuck do users fucking dislike the fucking use of emojis on fucking Lemmy?”
Because, emojis, breakup, the, flow, of, a, sentence, like, a, comma. Using too, many, makes, it, sound, like, you, are, straining, to 💩.
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.
it can quickly get unreadable. I mean, I’m fine having a smiley to mark-down the humour/sarcasm, or the bad news but on some social media it’s like
*During 🍑 🍆 the 🐱 👁️🗨️ at 💑 *
Even more straightforward stuff can still be messy, I am not saving much by writing 🇧🇪 still has no government (Is that Romania ? Germany ? Belgium ? ) over Belgium still has no government
I grew up with emoticons and find the colorful nature of them quite disruptive… but that might just be me *shrug*
I usually always use : ) type of faces to give tone, but I used to use text like you did there for shrug, but I assumed it would alter the text due to underlying text editor like this
It does unless you proceed it with a backslash like \*
Yeah I assumed it was just html underneath it all. Test: <i>italics</I> <Strong>bold</strong>
It is eventually encoded into the DOM possibly via HTML or possibly through direct node creation but it’s more accurate to say it’s markdown.
Markdown, never heard the term, the m in html is markup I thought, it’s been years since I did any web design. 2006 I think is when I studied it, so I used notepad, and Dreamweaver was still owned by macromedia haha
Markdown and HTML are indeed both markup languages, markdown is one that was designed to align with a lot of internet text habits that emerged organically like using *s to create lists and ascii tables.
A reference is available here https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text
Because this isn’t a Spot The Dog book, and we don’t need little picture of all the nouns.
On their own they’re ambiguous and vague; with the matching word they’re completely redundant.
What good does it do to say “I had pizza [little picture of pizza] for lunch”?
I’ll use the occasional :) or such as befits the tone, but pointless hieroglyphics are pointless and annoying.
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.
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.)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.
I see emojis as text’s substitute for body language. Body language is supposed to supplement the spoken word. Emojis should supplement the paragraph.
Trying to communicate with more emojis than text is akin to trying to communicate with more body language than spoken word.
Ever try to say something but forget the word, and you try to convey the meaning with body language instead? Overuse of emojis implies a similar lapse of thought.
It feels immature and cringe but that’s probably only 'cause I’m “old”.
And I thought it was us middle-aged (40+) and older who was the only one who still used them literally. Gotten the impression that younger generations invented non-obvious meanings that spread in trend waves, then stopped using emojis when it became too hard and social anxiety-inducing to keep track of the various interpretations of what a “slight smile” might possibly mean to the receiver. 🙂
26 here, I’m partial to ｢🙃｣. Not 100% sure I can put into words what it means though!
– Frost
I like one or two at the end of the sentence to help relay tone. As seen in:
OMG! HE’S DYING! 😂
OMG! HE’S DYING! 😭
Those are useful emojis.
The best part is when boomers can’t tell them apart. “Grandma died 😂”
Especially if they also misuse acronyms.
“Grandma died LOL 😂”
Loved out of life 👻
