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Matt W's avatar

To be honest, anyone who needs everyone to walk on such eggshells when communicating with them needs to toughen up. Full stop. Without emojis. :) Grow up.

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Tuấn Mon's avatar

Yep, that's why they are also called "snowflake generation"

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Get off my lawn's avatar

The only person I know who still uses emojis is my grandmother because she thinks they are cute

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Tuấn Mon's avatar

Kudos to her effort!

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benvamin's avatar

Tragic how many of these social interaction rules are artifacts of Mark Zuckerberg's mind control machine.

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Tuấn Mon's avatar

Example of how products shape our behavior

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BP5's avatar

I'm a Zoomer but never in my life I ever used emojis. They look tacky.

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Tuấn Mon's avatar

I hope people around you feel the same. I don't see the need for emojis, either, maybe I'm not of the "text" type

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Sally the Bull's avatar

Generally, this so-called x-er's compulsion to employ proper diction intends to convey that I value my keystrokes and far outstrips any worry that the person on the other end might misunderstand me. More pointedly, I'm all too keen to spit on decorum, whether it be the suit-and-tie set's or that of you scatterbrained kids.

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Adrian Tritschler's avatar

so very serious. laughs in gen-x/boomer cusp.

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Tuấn Mon's avatar

What do you have in your generation that your previous one doesn't?

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Cal's avatar

I don't want to communicate with anyone who needs me to communicate with them like this.

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Tuấn Mon's avatar

It just makes everything so complicated doesn't it?

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Christina's avatar

I remember on facebook posts I used to do things like *falls dramatically to the floor* , then I expressed that sentiment using a gif of someone actually falling. Now I express it through the melt face emoji. I also add 'lol' to soften the blow of a comment. i.e."well that didn't go well lol". lol is now a chuckle, or a dervish sound. Actual laughing is like 🤣😆😂 (although the with tears is exclusively millennial now). I don't want to use the 💀, it feels too gruesome, plus it probably wasn't *that* funny. I love examining language and communication. Messaging etiquette is important since no one wants to answer their phone anymore 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Tuấn Mon's avatar

I love it when someone distracts me with a phone/slack/teams call. Yeah it's distracting, but it gets shit done FAST.

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Gavin Nichols's avatar

Aaauugghh! It's too complicated! I'm going to open up a Pynchon novel..... (yes, a real novel, not an ebook)

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Dainius's avatar

What a fairy tail is this?

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MV's avatar

I don't really agree with 6, 8, 10, but the others are absolutely true. Especially the first one was kind of horrifying when I saw it put in text, but reading the sentences with/without dots I feel the sentiment exactly as described

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Tuấn Mon's avatar

The full stop is like someone looks straight into our eyes and say something with poker face and a monotone

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MV's avatar

hmm, that's a very good comparison, might be worth editing into the article :)

funny how "society" agreed on conveying a face expression like this

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Gordon Sneedman's avatar

As a zoomer this is basically spot on

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Tuấn Mon's avatar

like, all? You must be a mid zoomer?

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Gordon Sneedman's avatar

I wasn't aware of 10, and 2 has a bit more nuance (using emoji frequently is primarily a girl thing, guys use them sparingly). I was born in 2000.

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Tuấn Mon's avatar

One dear subscriber wanted to add to my list:

11. A reaction is better than seen

When you have seen the message and do not know how to reply, or the convo has come to an end. A reaction can show that you want to end a convo/you have read and understood and you have no comment.

12. Chatting on different apps can be separate topics and personality

You can have a really serious convo on Messenger and be a sharing meme person through Instagram :))

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Long's avatar

personally I like emojis, especially 😁 and 🥺 but other egg shells make me scared

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Roger's avatar

LOL, I didn't know my wife's a Gen Z - she always sees a second/hidden meaning in everything I say.

wife: Did I loose some weight?

me: Yeah babe, you look fab.

wife: DO YOU WANT TO SAY I WAS FAT?!!!

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rando's avatar

haha i was not capitalizing or using periods before genz was born - who cares about any of this... in 20 years or so they'll figure out life just like all the other gens did, nothing new

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Tuấn Mon's avatar

well, until then, they have enough time to inflict this mindset onto the next generation :)

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