4 ms·
Is 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 th
by eponeponepon 9y ago
Is 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...