{"id":4667,"date":"2015-05-29T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2015-05-26T21:48:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T21:48:33","slug":"linked-should-grown-men-use-emoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/linked-should-grown-men-use-emoji\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Should Grown Men Use Emoji?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/03\/fashion\/mens-style\/should-grown-men-use-emoji.html?_r=0\">via NY Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>John McWhorter, a linguist who teaches at Columbia University, said that some men shy away from emoji because, as he put it, \u201cWomen use them more.\u201d That may not continue to be the case, he added.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven\u2019t used Emoji and never will. I\u2019ve used :) for years\u2026since maybe 1996? Never felt inclined to use a frown face or anything remotely similar. Smiley faces are used to indicate jest and are very important in text based conversations. I think iMessage now corrects :) to the emoji version but I usually don\u2019t pay attention.<\/p>\n<p>I also don\u2019t think this is simply a Male versus Female communication trend. I use my 18 year old sister as a common use case into the next generation of communications. She touch types, can\u2019t replace a hard drive in a PC and doesn\u2019t even know how to uninstall a Windows application. She can fluently use iOS and communicates exclusively in Emoji. Before Emoji, she spoke in abbreviated \u2018l33tsp3ak\u2019 which I don\u2019t even know if we call it that anymore. Anyway, her communication annoyed me not because I didn\u2019t understand what she was saying. My point to her was that eventually she\u2019ll need to type proficiently with grammar use and proper spelling for college or to write a resume. If she spends 95% of her typing with thumbs in abbreviated sentences, she won\u2019t be prepared for the real world of writing.<\/p>\n<p>She never listened. I see emoji as fun and convenient for young people but because I develop bad habits very easily, I\u2019ll stick to traditional writing. It might take an extra 45 seconds to type out an SMS but maintaining my language skills is important to me as I write 6 hours a day for work.<\/p>\n<p>Further, if you look at a teenager\u2019s iPhone, it\u2019s pretty amazing how few of the default apps they use. They don\u2019t use iMessage\/SMS, Mail, Phone, Weather, Stocks, Calendar (maybe rarely). Their iPhone is exclusively used for Snapchat, Reddit and other non-Apple services. My iPhone is almost 90% used by Apple\u2019s default apps. I like it that way but my sister never checks her email. \u201cSnapchat me\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via NY Times: John McWhorter, a linguist who teaches at Columbia University, said that some men shy away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:30:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"0ad64438-db21-4875-baae-394e3a5369e5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:30:07Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ACtZEONshSHW6rjlOOlNp5Q","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1dh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5807,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/24\/linked-investigating-the-potential-for-miscommunication-using-emoji\/","url_meta":{"origin":4667,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via GroupLens: To your smartphone, an emoji is just like any other character (e.g., lower-case \u2018a\u2019, upper-case \u2018B\u2019) and needs to be rendered with a font. 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