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Is this different from using an emoji to approximate an emotion? Or abbreviations like lol? Or language in general? Or any communication? People will get used t
by grzm 9y ago
Is this different from using an emoji to approximate an emotion? Or abbreviations like lol? Or language in general? Or any communication? People will get used to it and it'll become popular if people find it useful. I personally don't use emoji much and likely wouldn't use this much either. But I can imagine others might.
- eponeponepon 9y agoIs this different from using an emoji to approximate an emotion? Yes, very. Say I crack a joke :) You see the smiley, and it's the same (alright, roughly the same ;o) ) as the smiley someone else would use to express the same approximate emotion. If, on the other hand, my smile looks like 8-D but someone else's looks like :=) and that other guy's looks like %} - the consistency vanishes. And that's before you start factoring in people with, say, Bell's Palsy.
- grzm 9y agoI understand what you're saying. All communication has the possibility of miscommunication: and it's not just on the sender. Ever been misunderstood in face-to-face conversation? Over text? Over the phone? Over email? On an Internet forum? If it's not useful, people won't use it. If there's a miscommunication, we have ways to resolve those. I can't imagine this is something people will be forced to use, just as people aren't forced to use emoji, or markup images.
- llao 9y agoThat is actually a huge problem with all the different looks that emojis have. I wish there was just one, standardized set of them. But I guess then people would have to live with icons of actual pistols instead of water guns...