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Man!! biggest problem of 2019 developer in communication :emoji:. Try using gifs, there always seems exact one for the mood, or maybe words.

• asdfman123 7y ago
  At my last workplace it was fun choosing oddly specific reaction emojis for comments. Like I loaded a gif of a dumpster fire and used it as emoji. I uploaded a picture of my face to use as an emoji. I uploaded the "It's free real estate!" guy. Yes, I'm 33, my coworkers were younger but I have the meme knowledge of someone 2/3rds my age due to endless reddit scrolling, thank you. I can keep up with the kids.
  • drankula3 7y ago
    That's great, that's fun. What's the business value of using gifs in business discussion though? I thought they were almost exclusively used for emotional expression only.
    • anbop 7y ago
      Emotional expression is an important component of high bandwidth business communication.
      • close04 7y ago
        I find myself using the :poop: emoji a lot...
    • ultraluminous 7y ago
      I am both bemused and somewhat concerned that you seems to hold the belief that "business discussions" are conducted outside of the realm of "emotional expression".
  • tracker1 7y ago
    I'm 44... and most of this isn't really all that new... sure, now we have unicode characters instead of :-) but this stuff started all the way back in the 80's.
    • astrobe_ 7y ago
      Eternal September.
    • asdfman123 7y ago
      Perhaps you're unaware of the panoply of extremely postmodern memes that come out every week in the darkest crevices of the internet?