Miscellaneous Monday: You probably use them every day! (Hint: 🙂👍🏻🔥🩵)

[Sarp Egemen]

G'day and happy Monday everyone! 👋

To the "Are you learning any languages?" post, "emojis" replied @Fun Man Andy.
This got me thinking... Actually, we all speak emojis!

How powerful these little images turned out to be! They can change the entire meaning of a sentence or reduce a paragraph-long text to one little icon. Or sometimes, they might be misunderstood too...

While doing a little research about them, I came across the fact that over 10 billion emojis are sent every day across the world and 92% of the online population uses emojis daily, which is an incredible amount.

I guess nearly everyone here has at least once given a thumbs-up to a Slack message. Thanks for contributing to the 92%!

So, what are your thoughts about emojis? I’d love to hear some of your stories:

• What's your favorite emoji(s)? (Mine is definitely 🙌🏻 )
• Have you ever found yourself in a situation where somebody misinterpreted your emojis?
• Do you have any emoji combinations you love to use?

(PS: Posts that use emojis have a 33% higher share and comment rate. Hope we will confirm this statistic now! ✨)

[Lazike Nuru]

good 👍👍👍👍👍

[Andrew Zimmerman]

My favorite is 🤔. But I probably use 👀 the most often, as a sort of “acknowledged” message.

[Sarp Egemen]

👀

[LoRi]

i see that one as 👀 OH? Do tell...

[Tomislav Tobijas]

I LOVE emojis! 😍

Apart from reducing the number of times to say "thanks" or "no problem", I feel like they can just brighten up the atmosphere of the conversation. 🥳

I'm not using that many emojis when I first meet/talk with someone, so I haven't had situations where my emojis have been misinterpreted, but I know my sister and I pointed to my mum that she should avoid using 👍 as it often feels like a passive-aggressive reaction 😅

At the workplace, a few people have said that they really like emoji reactions I tend to leave on messages and even asked me not to stop doing that.

As for some of my favorite ones, here are a few I frequently use...

(as you can see, there are a lot of custom ones  )

[Sarp Egemen]

You even got the ultimate Jiramoji! The Jira Life team would be proud of you 😅

[Sandra Franchetto]

Fav emojis 😇🫶🙏

No more intrigue.

I can't remember exactly what I used but here I was asked to show my day in emojis 🦂❤️🙏 Pretty much explains most days.😁

[Stephen_Lugton]

Since 👍 means like (and in one case was taken to mean acceptance of a contract!) I prefer to use 👀 to show I've seen a message or post.

I use 😎 to show I've done something I've been asked to do.

And 💩 to show one of my Product Owners the quality of his requirements

[Amanda Barber]

🤪

[Sarp Egemen]

You got me with the last one! 😂

[Susan Waldrip]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Sean Perry]

👍- I use it multiple times an hour.

[Sarp Egemen]

👍

[Amanda Barber]

I love emojis. For work, I reply to each standup report in Slack with an emoji that relates to what they posted (even when it's just loosely related...ha!) My team loves that bit of acknowledgment. I really appreciate how emojis can more easily convey meaning in written text (although, your note about them being misunderstood is definitely tricky!)

In our User Manuals, we have a little section to post your favorite emojis and their meaning.

[Sarp Egemen]

That's a brilliant idea! Everyone should make their own emoji-table.

[Susan Waldrip]

What a great idea, @Amanda Barber ! Takes the guessing out of it.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

I think emojis are very useful, but I'm one of the old folks, so I like the tools that give an indication of the meaning of the emoji before I insert it. There are so many that I have no idea what they mean that I am afraid I'll use the wrong one. (do the different color hearts mean different things? what is the upside down smiley face for?) 😉

[Sarp Egemen]

I have different thoughts about the colored hearts too.
I usually use 🧡 because I find ❤️ a bit too "romantic."
And when it comes to Atlassian, it's 🩵 because, you know, the color matches.

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Not sure I have a favorite.  I use👍a lot.  Been told it no longer means "approve", but I still use it.  Overall I like emojis, but not a fan of overuse.

[Susan Waldrip]

Hi @Sarp Egemen , what a fun topic -- I had no idea 10B emojis are sent every day! 😱🤪🤔 My favorite emojis are probably "cool" 😎, goat 🐐 and paws 🐾 because we have goats and a dog, and smiling eyes😊because that's what happens to my eyes when I smile (they disappear!). Haven't had emojis misinterpreted that I know of but I've accidentally added the wrong emoji on occasion and it could've looked weird.

[Sarp Egemen]

😎😎😎

[Daria Kulikova_GitProtect_io]

I use emojis but don't overuse them, I would even say that I would better put " :) " than start searching for an emoji ☺️ 

I don't remember when I was misunderstood with emojis, but I definitely remember that one of the parents from my daughter's class said that I was rude... and the reason was that I didn't use emojis at all in our parents' group chat 😅

[LoRi]

At work we have an automation tool we call the vacuum. so for short we created a Kirby custom emoji in Teams to reference the tool. Works great. Cuz sometimes kirtby can be mad or sad or all sorts of emotions.