<story><title>I Stopped Using Emojis</title><url>https://thistooshallgrow.com/blog/emoji-stop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sambeau</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t need to experiment with not using emoji. I am old enough to have a working life before they existed. In those days all online discussions became a huge argument very quickly. Passive-aggressive memos with bosses cc&amp;#x27;ed in flew about constantly. In-person meetings were hastily convened on a regular basis to sort things out. Usually all that needed sorted out was a stupid misunderstanding, and the root cause was usually a misreading of tone followed by an emotional overreaction somewhere in the chain of emails.&lt;p&gt;My 18-year old son, who I mostly communicate through text messages, went cold on me recently. I assumed he was angry about something so I called him. No, he had decided to give up using &amp;#x27;childish&amp;#x27; emoji. I asked him to reconsider.&lt;p&gt;I am firmly of the opinion that emoji are incredibly useful and that normal speech is full of emotion and playfulness that hastily written text cannot convey. You should therefore be using them in your workplace. If you don&amp;#x27;t use emoji you &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; be misunderstood. No matter how well written your prose is the recipients may only have time to skim-read it.&lt;p&gt;Using emoji are, in my opinion, &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; &amp;#x27;professional&amp;#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashleyn</author><text>Some food for thought, the younger segment of the online neurodivergent community has come up with a solution to this problem: &amp;quot;tone indicators&amp;quot;[1]. They are semifrequently seen in the art spaces I hang out in. If you&amp;#x27;ve seen &amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;s&amp;quot; on Reddit, you&amp;#x27;ve probably seen a tone indicator.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;toneindicators.carrd.co&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;toneindicators.carrd.co&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>I Stopped Using Emojis</title><url>https://thistooshallgrow.com/blog/emoji-stop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sambeau</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t need to experiment with not using emoji. I am old enough to have a working life before they existed. In those days all online discussions became a huge argument very quickly. Passive-aggressive memos with bosses cc&amp;#x27;ed in flew about constantly. In-person meetings were hastily convened on a regular basis to sort things out. Usually all that needed sorted out was a stupid misunderstanding, and the root cause was usually a misreading of tone followed by an emotional overreaction somewhere in the chain of emails.&lt;p&gt;My 18-year old son, who I mostly communicate through text messages, went cold on me recently. I assumed he was angry about something so I called him. No, he had decided to give up using &amp;#x27;childish&amp;#x27; emoji. I asked him to reconsider.&lt;p&gt;I am firmly of the opinion that emoji are incredibly useful and that normal speech is full of emotion and playfulness that hastily written text cannot convey. You should therefore be using them in your workplace. If you don&amp;#x27;t use emoji you &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; be misunderstood. No matter how well written your prose is the recipients may only have time to skim-read it.&lt;p&gt;Using emoji are, in my opinion, &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; &amp;#x27;professional&amp;#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>I agree that emojis (or emoticons or kaomojis) are incredibly helpful in text conversation. But I think there is another thing going on in the article, and that&amp;#x27;s using emojis to replace text, instead of enhancing it. Sending just a heart or a thumbs up instead of a &amp;quot;thank you :)&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;this made my day!&amp;quot;. A practice that helps cutting the noise in busy social network posts, but is much less expressive and meaningful. An emoticon is like a smile: it&amp;#x27;s much more meaningful when combined with words.</text></comment>