The world of “Emojis”

The world of “Emojis”

I got to thinking about the Emoji that I clicked on to like a message from a friend the other day and I went a little deeper as always with my thinking. I do not know half of the emojis that exist and have no extra apps where I can create any of the super cool versions of emoji or nothing like that. I do belong to some form of group of generation p, q, r, s, t or l, m, n, o & p, so I can be excused for not knowing all there is to know about the world of Emoji.

I do listen to any new information when I stumble across it, which is sometimes during mindless or mind numbing scrolling of the internet or social media accounts. The prayer hands did get me thinking before and is one that sticks in my mind because of how someone explained to me that it was not a set of hands making a prayer, it is in fact two hands giving each other a high five. Or is it? I have always read that as someone signing off with something like, “hopefully” or “please God” type of thing or send a prayer. Then I looked at it and believed it to be exactly what was explained to me as being a simple high five between two hands. So there ya go, who really knows?

I see many times the heart option on facebook for example, does that mean love? Or can the sender mean something just a little better than a like? What about the care bear heart? Is that a care emoji that means I send you hugs? I guess it does show an emoji face giving a heart a hug so; it does kinda of mean a hug I think.

Then it can happen on whats app many times over too, the like button being a heart. So I sent you a message and you put a heart on it or a thumbs up. This makes me laugh as many years ago myself and a friend used to make fun of each other that the thumbs up was an insult as it ended the conversation and was in no way a response and was like a “get lost now” or “go away” emoji more than anything encouraging. Needless to say we began to send thumbs up all of the time then and follow up with smiley faces or laughing emoji after as we had the conversation on what it meant to us. Which does of course lead me further down the path of what dies it all mean to anybody.

Like all text and writing from days gone by, who can really tell what somebody means without hearing their voice or seeing their physical expression to go with the text.

Can I tell if it sarcastic or facetious. Can I know you meant high five, like cool or well done or did you mean hopefully or that you will say a prayer for me? Jaysus, typing it out here and reading it back helps me to have less of a clue about any of it than I did have before.

Interpretation would be where I land at. What you mean by sending the emoji and what I read it to mean could be worlds apart. And then there might be those of you who are reading too much in to the emoji world of communication too. Who really cares if somebody sends a like instead of a love and or if they send a high five or “a thumbs up”? Then does an emoji giving a heart a hug mean I love you with loads of hugs or does it mean care, when in fact, what the heck is care? I send you care, what the hell is that anyway?

I consider being clear in our communications the best way to communicate. I practice this everyday and realize more and more that my clearest of communication that I deliver from my mouth may not land at the ears of the receiving person in the clearest form to what their mind understands or interprets. How confusing is that? It brings to mind the point of how many people are only half listening anyway and then with that half listening mode switched on for them, what do they actually hear and what are the words that strike them strongly. Usually words that trigger something or align with where their own thoughts are on that particular day which could of course change easily, which then suggests that we must communicate clearly and be somewhat mind readers at the same time so that we can know where somebody else is at and this would help us direct our speak to a place that registers better with them.

That right there my friends is way to complicated for people to handle and takes away from the concept of clear and simple communication.

Oh wow you liked my post on social media today, Gee Whizzz thanks, though I noticed you only felt enough of it to place a thumbs up and did not bother to show me some appreciation and give it a whole heart type thing. Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha, I do not think that way though I have encountered some people who do. If you are one of those people then do yourself a favour and chill out a bit, relax and find out that it is all a bunch of nonsense anyway and does not represent any real world or real life feelings of love or hate or emotional connection at all. Another double laugh Ha-Ha-Ha came to mind just now of when I heard some people telling me that were friends with Shakira on Twitter and they do follow them and love their tweets. So when somebody likes a big celebrities post on social media they believe the celebrity person is checking their social media and happy to know they love their content, yeah I do not think so, though there are those that do. Strange isn’t it?

I tend to press the care emoji when I see a post that touches me a little and wish to send the concept to the person that I have read their post and was touched by it. I will press the heart button when I do in deed have a feeling of better than a simple, “I like this post”, though I am definitely not in love with it, a form of expression, I love it like I mean that it is great and I really like it. I meant even use an angry face to show my disgust with something somebody has had to say on social media and then if I feel like I want to shout at the person, I might use that little head that is super red and has smoke coming out of his nose or ears like to be furious. And then many a time I will not put anything and continue scrolling past.  How do you view the reactions you send and the reactions you receive to your internet usage?

And how do you view what that might actually mean to another person?

One thing is for sure, the emoji world of things can lead to massive bust ups and can be warming to many also. All by depending on where the receiver is at and often times have nothing to do with what you meant.

And hat my friends is a trippy situation of how humans are and can be laughable at the best of times.

This is the piece where I now very clearly ask you for a like, comment, chare and follow. And suspect you will not know what to do about that either, cause ya never know who is watching and how it will be interpreted and that opens a can worms for another day.

Oh the internet and the Emoji world. Good for a laugh though! Did I forget to mention, FOLLOW……… @twosonstoomany or @2sons2many