Perhaps it's more important to me to convey connection digitally as covid makes IRL connection more sparse. I never used to use them and throughout the last 5 years, I've grown to use them more and more, though I can't pinpoint why. Somehow, every year, I rely more on emojis in all my communication. Not changed, just expanded their definition, so they've become less clear and hence less useful.They're distracting and ultimately annoying, trying to draw the eye away from what you actually want to read Animated ones, especially ones done at speed.It tells me nothing more than someone skimmed a post and wanted to say they've noticed it. As for what I see at work, I'm afraid it's all pointless noise. I'll start mixing it up with a smiling dog when we get a dog). I use maybe 15 of them, all the very clear ones (although I tend to use "smiling cat" instead of "smile".But most people are never going to learn and agree on the precise meanings of 3300+ emojis (let alone all the non-unicode ones) It's great to have something that says "I read this", "I like this", "I found this funny", "Thank you" and other clear short phrases with a single character. The oldest and most used ones are useful as contractions. They've become another type of jargon and yet another way to mis-communicate. Frankly, their proliferation has made them mostly useless in my opinion.
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