Emoji Usage Debate
The cluster centers on debates about the effectiveness, universality, cultural interpretations, and acceptance of emojis in digital communication, with Hacker News users often criticizing them while defending their value for expressing emotion.
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An object lesson in the problems of using emoji to actually convey meaning :)
I might be misunderstanding the situation, but isn't emoji universal? Would it be ill-fitted here?
lots of normal people like emoji. the kind of normal people who have never heard of hacker news
Incorrect, because emoji are being used to communicate with other people on different systems. That's their primary purpose, not to write to yourself.
Not to critique on the article, but as a general suggestion, it would be great if people don't use emojis as a scale. Unless it shows a specific character like number emojis, they are sometimes read differently by people from different language backgrounds. So what the author might be trying to say might lead to misunderstandings.
What exactly are we afraid will happen if someone uses an emoji instead of typing :) ?
If you haven't seen how emojis are used in the wild to enhance communication, it's probably not for you.
Is it wrong that I instantly think less of a website when I see gratuitous, unnecessary emoji?
I find that a colourful emoji like [hmm, HN can't display an emoji] feels very different from a text emoticon or tag.It's such an illusion, too - the sender doesn't even see the same emoji character as I do because of different fonts and devices. Some emojis look sad or angry on some devices, and smiling on others. There's plenty of room for misinterpretation.But it adds feeling anyway!
Did I? Maybe emoticons aren't as universal as we're assuming then ;)