Why do people hate Emojis so much?

[wubbelflup]

It's kinda a part of basic human communication to add facial expressions to show the tone and meaning 🙄

I get overuse and "OwO" are hated.. but one??

[HE❌EN]

Well, for me it's simple: I differ between communication face to face where facial expression is a normal part of the conversation and written communication.

If my conversation partner is not able to express him- or herself without the need of artificial emotions, then I assume that my discussion partner does not master the basic linguistic skills of the language and/or wants to cover up these gaps with emoticons, which, in my opinion, puts him or her several steps down in the process.

I don't care if this is "okay" or not. I don't care if other people condemn it because it is discriminatory or not. For me it works and people who use words like "u" "lmoa" numbers for words and too much abbreviations in chats and spam emoticons that the chat reads like an epileptic seizure - weil, i dont need those people in my life.

When I communicate - even via chat - it's a chat and no urban dictionary.

In this matter I don't care about other opinions, just like quoting and "correcting". If people have a problem with this, they belong into the category "I am happy to have caused negative emotions at some point."

Addendum:

"But what when somebody can't detect sarcasm or isn't able because Autism?"

Then don't go on the internet and complain about it when participating in an environment where most of the people dont share your quirks/lack of communication/expression skills.

[Crazy Tiger]

I've seen too many times where people were actually being a racist ♥♥♥♥, only to put a wink on the end to make it look as if they're joking.

Personally I don't hate them. I am, however, of the generation that still calls them smileys and not emojis.

[wubbelflup]

İlk olarak Crazy Tiger tarafından gönderildi:

I've seen too many times where people were actually being a racist ♥♥♥♥, only to put a wink on the end to make it look as if they're joking.

Personally I don't hate them. I am, however, of the generation that still calls them smileys and not emojis.

yeah okay but that's just disgusting behaviour. cant really blame that on emoji's. you have that irl too when people make jokes that are widly inapropiate.

İlk olarak 𝙸𝚁𝚄𝙻▲𝙽 tarafından gönderildi:

Well, for me it's simple: I differ between communication face to face where facial expression is a normal part of the conversation and written communication.

If my conversation partner is not able to express him- or herself without the need of artificial emotions, then I assume that my discussion partner does not master the basic linguistic skills of the language and/or wants to cover up these gaps with emoticons, which, in my opinion, puts him or her several steps down in the process.

I don't care if this is "okay" or not. I don't care if other people condemn it because it is discriminatory or not. For me it works and people who use words like "u" "lmoa" numbers for words and too much abbreviations in chats and spam emoticons that the chat reads like an epileptic seizure - weil, i dont need those people in my life.

When I communicate - even via chat - it's a chat and no urban dictionary.

In this matter I don't care about other opinions, just like quoting and "correcting". If people have a problem with this, they belong into the category "I am happy to have caused negative emotions at some point."

okay fair. but tbh when i chat i don't want to have to master the english language like a poet simply to communicate.

i agree that too many emoji's are annoying, esp in a serious conversation. but using them sparsely can inprove natural sounding chat conversations, ect. and avoid miscommunication.

the amount of times i made a joke and then pissed people off because they didn't realize... is too much... if i used emoji's that would not be the case.

overuse is annoying though. true.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Most people do not have emotes, so countering people that hates them, are not common.

I keep short and simple as possible.
- Some people use them for inappropriate matters for whatever reason. Some people may get annoy, just like how people upload,/use inappropriate memes, or etc.

- Some people just use emotes, with their abbreviations/slang. Which some people may not understand, and it will annoy them.

- Some people use emotes as a added point, or affect to add to their post/text, to add some meaning. Or just use emotes only as for their expression, and say nothing else. Some people just don't like it.

[unca.alby]

My problem with them is that outside of the smile, frown, wink, puke and angry ones, there is no clear-cut universally agreed-upon meaning for most of them.

It's like the chocolate ice cream one -- wait, you mean that's supposed to be a pile of poop?

Human facial expressions evolved over perhaps hundreds of thousands of years. You can take people from opposite sides of the globe who can not understand each other's speech or writing, but they understand each other's face. You can't get two people from the same high school to agree about some of those stupid emojis.

And if we can't agree on meanings of the terms we use, we can not communicate.

[AustrAlien2010]

Maybe they don´t, but you only think they do.

[crunchyfrog]

Personally, I can see why many do, and it's because their intended use (as you rightly point out, OP) IS NOT how they are used.

In short, why people cringe at them is because they're often used by people who either have poor grammar and communication skills and use them either incorrectly or as a crutch to get round their poor skills making matters worse.

That's kind of it - it's not uncommon either. There's MANY an invention or innovation that has been created and gets used wrongly.

But yeah, the bottom line is that when something is created to fix the problem text has (inflection and tone) and it ends up not doing that, then you're not using it correctly.

[wubbelflup]

İlk olarak crunchyfrog tarafından gönderildi:

Personally, I can see why many do, and it's because their intended use (as you rightly point out, OP) IS NOT how they are used.

In short, why people cringe at them is because they're often used by people who either have poor grammar and communication skills and use them either incorrectly or as a crutch to get round their poor skills making matters worse.

That's kind of it - it's not uncommon either. There's MANY an invention or innovation that has been created and gets used wrongly.

But yeah, the bottom line is that when something is created to fix the problem text has (inflection and tone) and it ends up not doing that, then you're not using it correctly.

yeah this is def an issue. although for reddit specifically. i think it's more cultural or like the person below this says

İlk olarak Brockenstein tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak epicpotato 077 tarafından gönderildi:

It's kinda a part of basic human communication to add facial expressions to show the tone and meaning 🙄

I get overuse and "OwO" are hated.. but one??

Generational thing.

1. Lots of folks grew up without emoji's and it's not part of their normal typing style.
   
2. Or they used ascii, =p, =), :) etc.
   
3. Didn't start using emoji's when they started becoming more popular.
   
4. They're resistant to change or are just contrary.

I mean this doesn't apply to everyone or anyone specific. But this isn't a new thing either, any time there's something new or different in the world there's people who circle the wagons and resist. Emojis, clothes, music, tv, video games, whatever. People have an idea what peak was and anything that happens after they attribute to the decline and eventual destruction of the thing.

this is a good point. didn't even realize there was a generation that grew up without them .. but of course there are. i'm such a zoomer lol.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I dislike emojis and any other formatting that can't be boiled down to plaintext, because that means that that text can't be saved in plaintext in an application like Notepad.

In turn this means that the space needed to save the document is longer (I have to use LibreOffice Writer or Microsoft Word, at least, if not an outright HTML file), and it takes longer to launch the application to handle it, and so on.

As for displaying facial expressions, I already do that in text, and if I really need to display a very specific expression, I can use ASCII art. If I do it right, I can TYPE everything. Everything is literally at my fingertips, on my keyboard.

Emojis, on the other hand, I have to reach over and make several mouse clicks and browse through a list and so on, to use. They're much slower.

Furthermore, a number of people (my own mother included!) overuse emojis. For example, here's something like what she wrote recently:

Congratulations!!!!!!! :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy:

[crunchyfrog]

İlk olarak epicpotato 077 tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak crunchyfrog tarafından gönderildi:

Personally, I can see why many do, and it's because their intended use (as you rightly point out, OP) IS NOT how they are used.

In short, why people cringe at them is because they're often used by people who either have poor grammar and communication skills and use them either incorrectly or as a crutch to get round their poor skills making matters worse.

That's kind of it - it's not uncommon either. There's MANY an invention or innovation that has been created and gets used wrongly.

But yeah, the bottom line is that when something is created to fix the problem text has (inflection and tone) and it ends up not doing that, then you're not using it correctly.

yeah this is def an issue. although for reddit specifically. i think it's more cultural or like the person below this says

İlk olarak Brockenstein tarafından gönderildi:

Generational thing.

1. Lots of folks grew up without emoji's and it's not part of their normal typing style.
   
2. Or they used ascii, =p, =), :) etc.
   
3. Didn't start using emoji's when they started becoming more popular.
   
4. They're resistant to change or are just contrary.

I mean this doesn't apply to everyone or anyone specific. But this isn't a new thing either, any time there's something new or different in the world there's people who circle the wagons and resist. Emojis, clothes, music, tv, video games, whatever. People have an idea what peak was and anything that happens after they attribute to the decline and eventual destruction of the thing.

this is a good point. didn't even realize there was a generation that grew up without them .. but of course there are. i'm such a zoomer lol.

What Brockenstein says is true, but as someone in their fifties, you should come see my Facebook page where my friends are about 60% my age, and the remainder either older or younger. EVERYONE bar a few uses emojis, so that MIGHT be true for your given group or the circles you hang in, but it most certainly ain't in mine.

So no, I don't buy age is a thing that much.

From what I've seen older people use them every bit as much - often getting things wrong, mind. But then when you temper that against younger people doing as I said - misusing and actually confusing rather than helping their communication, it's all much of a muchness.

In short, everybody does it, which just indicates it's a societal thing, or human nature.

And there's plenty of evidence for this - we only have to look at language and how it changes. Compare English to American English. You see what I mean.

[crunchyfrog]

Excellent response there, Brockenstein. I quite agree.

[76561199050240827]

idk

[Radene]

Emojis are not facial expressions. That's stupid.

Even if you try. Really, try me!

:D

Am I just being very happy; am I laughing at the absurdity of the situation, did I just hear a good joke, or am I impersonating Garfield?

[crunchyfrog]

İlk olarak Radene tarafından gönderildi:

Emojis are not facial expressions. That's stupid.

Even if you try. Really, try me!

:D

Am I just being very happy; am I laughing at the absurdity of the situation, did I just hear a good joke, or am I impersonating Garfield?

Yeah, but that's the point isn't it? That's not what they're for, which is my point.

They're designed to embellish text by offering a bit more context to the lack of inflection.

They are NOT designed to mimic your facial expression. I don't know where you get that.

Although having said that, they aren't flawless by any means, as they're an improvement is all.

[wubbelflup]

İlk olarak Radene tarafından gönderildi:

Emojis are not facial expressions. That's stupid.

Even if you try. Really, try me!

:D

Am I just being very happy; am I laughing at the absurdity of the situation, did I just hear a good joke, or am I impersonating Garfield?

okay boomer. i know what you would mean if you wasn't the older generation. there are fairly universal rules for them.. if you use them a lot that is..