I wish the internet would drop support for emoji. Its fucking impossible to tell what anyone means anymore.

exactly 🤦‍♂️

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Well, they actually have an emoji dictionary or translation on the web. 😁😂

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It's like 15 years ago with pontuation expressions... :p
In 10 years almost anyone can read emoji.
Anyhow, if I get a reply with only emoji I just won't reply back.

I understand none of this thread.

Hah! I'm actually on the autism spectrum, the irony is astounding

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Emoji is the language of the future.

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Emoji is technical sign language. Effectively we are back to the stone age! In that particular time homo whatever learnt sign language. Emoji/Emoticon is from the devil!

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I disagree. Let me give you an example.

“Let’s have a chat.”

So is that a friendly chat or a “you’re fired” chat.

For the former it would be “Let’s have a chat 🙂”

For the latter it would be “Let’s have a chat 😞”

Maybe it’s a bad example. But it helps you add inflection to an email or a text when a person can’t see your face.

My only complaint is how vastly different emoji are between fonts.

I see an exasperated face: 😧
Here is a tired/done face: 😩
Shocked/embarrassed: 😖
Revolver (not squirt gun): 🔫

Likely these don't match whatever you're seeing. How are they useful if their meanings change? I have to pick emojis carefully based on what i know of the other person's phone and hope I get it right.

This thread is full of squares with diagonals. It's time to update my phone... 😶

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@deusprogrammer I agree with you, I especially have problems understanding and expressing by text only. but I also think one emoji is enough power sentence at most.

(except the cases where you want to express a change in faces like "I'm laughing but I want to cry" would be "😂😂😭")

How else are we meant to fill up the rest of Unicode... but seriously why cant os devs just use the standard icons?

The problem with adding meaning and inflection to conversations on the internet is that they are impossible to interpret correctly. For decades they've been neutral, and we've had to treat them as such. It forces people to speak plainly and clearly - and that's a good thing.

Adding inflection to them just makes it more difficult to determine what is implied, which is why I ignore emoji completely. I'm thinking about building an app which removes them from a device entirely, including the placeholder.

I like this one in particular 🖕

@Condor I absolutely agree. If I use Konqi emojis, I want the other person to see Konqi, too.

@irene Apple being 'politically correct.' iOS10 (iirc) changed that emoji from a revolver to a green squirt gun.

well emoticons are technically not emojis so imagine a world full of:

>///<
(TT)
( ^ o ^ )
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ 

Is this a world worth living in? No. Emojis are far easier to understand yet only just as annoying