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I am struck by how great the "@" sign was as a perfect (and currently applicable) synecdoche for contact information.
by Nevermark 1y ago
I am struck by how great the "@" sign was as a perfect (and currently applicable) synecdoche for contact information.
- gumby271 1y agoAgreed, and for some reason they replaced it with what is pretty universally used as the "profile" icon, baffling.
- a1371 1y agoThe A in @ also brings "Address book" to mind
- kcplate 1y agoBut is it though? My nearly 90 year old mother wouldn’t necessarily make that connection on her iPhone or iPad. I’d reckon that for many folks over 50 it would not necessarily be obvious without seeing @ used beyond email. I agree the latest rev does require familiarity with the old one more than it should, but a weeble, to me, is a better universal iconographic symbol to denote a contact than an @ (just in general)