“I love emojis …. how they save you time and effort to express something…”
“Do you use the stock images, or create your own?”
“Why should I spend time on it, when there are content creation teams doing it?”
“Those teams also ensure that you stay within acceptable limits of expression …. Actually they impose a code of conduct on you.”
“Hmmm… those are filters on emotions, rather than candid expression.”
“Filters are an acknowledgement that trash exists, and one needs to find acceptable ways of managing it.”
It’s Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up!
Reena Saxena 
I find the plethora of emojis far too confusing. What’s wrong with proper words? 😉 🙂
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I make mistakes in interpretations sometimes 🙂
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Back when I wrote many letters and said something funny, I’d write ha ha behind it and sometimes a smile. Who knew we’d being doing it in plastic?
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The difference between writing Hahaha and ha ha ha is also a rule. Broken laughter is not a pleasing sound.
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oops! I broke a rule HAHA
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😀😀😀😀
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I really appreciate the final line, Reena–it isn’t healthy to pretend negative reality is “okay”; far better to learn good coping techniques which include filters. Well done.
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Thank you, Jael! The final line is what I wrote first. The rest of it was built up after that. Glad it struck a chord with you.
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Oh that’s cool, that the last line came to you first–way to go!!
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This is a great SSS and causes me to think about how often I used them and why.
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Thank you, Pat! We use them because it saves effort and texts look incomplete without it 😀. That is a kind of programming 😂😂
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Funny, have been using them more over the last year. I suppose they add a little extra something 🙂 Having said that, your Six does give one pause to wonder… are they yet another method of subtle social engineering?? 😀
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We get programmed every day. Formats of any kind curtail full expression.
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We’ve come full circle. The first emoticons were suggested so people would know when someone was writing something in jest.
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Now, I cannot interpret all correctly, and prefer to ignore those messages.
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Haven’t developed the use (of emojis) to the point that I remember to employ them. Seems like an efficient tool, a shorthand if you will, graphic meets rhetoric
….thought-provoking Six, as always, R.
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Thank you, Clark! I often give a challenge to my trainees – write one word to describe each emoji on your phone without repeating words. They are unable to do it. So, emojis are likely to miscommunicate, in absence of the right linkages.
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I too like emojis and often resort to them when I really don’t want to get into a long conversation. Lazy,yes, effecty yes, perfect no! But this six is…perfect, that is. 😉😉
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Thank you, UP!
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they can be nice
but as a whole
no thanks
good post tho
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