Confirming my rule about cognitive ability correlating with emoji use. As the count increases and becomes more peppered throughout the words, expectations towards the quality of thought and reasoning should decrease.
It is especially true for use of the 🤔 and 😷emojis, but also emojis used alongside nouns 🍆 and verbs 👏, or as idioms 🎯. Displaying a repetition of emojis for sake of one is also concerning 🤣🤣🤣, especially if paired with repetition of exclamation and/or question marks 🤔🤔🤔???
I was around when texts were limited in the number of characters, and most phone plans had a cap on the number of included texts, so people really started with the abbreviations (e.g., “r u gonna go?”) and it started spreading to email and other non-texts (people stayed doing it before then on BBS’s, but it really took off then). But I wrote a lot at work and I was always worried if I got in the habit of using them I’d forget and use them in work emails or whatever. Very conservative company, so it would be unprofessional.
Long way of saying that I consciously avoided anything like that, and that extended to emojis. Now I feel a bit like a fossil for my texts with full sentences and punctuation, but I sort of am a fossil, so it’s okay.
Of course, all that is kind of ironic given my username.
When I was a kid someone told me that when people say like “yadda yadda yadda” or “but-but-da-ba-da” to finish their sentences or narratives, it’s because they are too slow to the think of words. And that has always seemed true and I think you’re right, it’s the same for emoji.
Confirming my rule about cognitive ability correlating with emoji use. As the count increases and becomes more peppered throughout the words, expectations towards the quality of thought and reasoning should decrease.
It is especially true for use of the 🤔 and 😷emojis, but also emojis used alongside nouns 🍆 and verbs 👏, or as idioms 🎯. Displaying a repetition of emojis for sake of one is also concerning 🤣🤣🤣, especially if paired with repetition of exclamation and/or question marks 🤔🤔🤔???
‘Multiple exclamation marks,’ he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.’ -Sir Terry Pratchett, Eric
I was around when texts were limited in the number of characters, and most phone plans had a cap on the number of included texts, so people really started with the abbreviations (e.g., “r u gonna go?”) and it started spreading to email and other non-texts (people stayed doing it before then on BBS’s, but it really took off then). But I wrote a lot at work and I was always worried if I got in the habit of using them I’d forget and use them in work emails or whatever. Very conservative company, so it would be unprofessional.
Long way of saying that I consciously avoided anything like that, and that extended to emojis. Now I feel a bit like a fossil for my texts with full sentences and punctuation, but I sort of am a fossil, so it’s okay.
Of course, all that is kind of ironic given my username.
When I was a kid someone told me that when people say like “yadda yadda yadda” or “but-but-da-ba-da” to finish their sentences or narratives, it’s because they are too slow to the think of words. And that has always seemed true and I think you’re right, it’s the same for emoji.