Emojis | Pad Patter 6.13

[IntenseMagic]

One of my favorite things here at the Pad is the awesome assortment of emojis/smilies that we have . I seriously don't use enough of them , but I love browsing through them and I love seeing posts filled with them used so perfectly .

I'm curious...
Is there one that you use most?
Do you have a favorite or one that just makes you smile when you see it?
Is there one that you have wished you'd have a use for, but haven't?

--> probably the one I use most, followed by
--> always one of my favorites. It just makes me giggle!
--> one that I really want to find a way to work in to a conversation!

I am going to make it a mission to use more of them, even if it is just for my own amusement!!

 

[HavaDrPepper]

Don't use them often, even in text messaging.

Over the years I have found that when I see a post on any forum that has too many that have movement to them, it bothers my eyes so I guess you could say I'm not a fan of them (along with gifs). Aging is probably why.

I will use the and just because they are easy to type.

 

[dotcomkari]

I use them all the freaking time. I love emojis

 

[bellbird]

(I have a soft spot for the girl playing in her scrap stash & have felt like this adequately conveys my frustration with technology most of the time . I need to use this guy more often - he's so fun! (And might I just add, I'm so glad there's no poo emoji in this set! I'm so not a fan of that one in text msgs!

 

[Nemla]

I often use this one
this usually when something good has happened
this one when it hasn't
this in gallery posts or this
I truly wish I could find a use for this

 

[StefanieS]

I love this one in a post that I pick someone's layout for a Froggie Fave.
Love this one for the idea of this post.
This one for chats and scraps that are while I am sleeping.

 

[littlekiwi]

I don’t use very many if any at all…not because I don’t want to but because I’m hyper aware in my field of work that not everyone can see them so I’d rather not exclude people. If I was being truly inclusive I’d use them and add image description along side so that people who are visually impaired and use screen readers and alternative tech can “see” them.

 

[IntenseMagic]

Don't use them often, even in text messaging.

Over the years I have found that when I see a post on any forum that has too many that have movement to them, it bothers my eyes so I guess you could say I'm not a fan of them (along with gifs). Aging is probably why.

I will use the and just because they are easy to type.

I understand that and yes, I tend to use the easier to type ones as well I reply in a hurry often!

 

[IntenseMagic]

I use them all the freaking time. I love emojis

 

[IntenseMagic]

(I have a soft spot for the girl playing in her scrap stash & have felt like this adequately conveys my frustration with technology most of the time . I need to use this guy more often - he's so fun! (And might I just add, I'm so glad there's no poo emoji in this set! I'm so not a fan of that one in text msgs!

I really like the girl in her stash as well, and woohoo guy! I very seldom use the poo emoji in text messages unless I use something like in front of it

 

[IntenseMagic]

I often use this one
this usually when something good has happened
this one when it hasn't
this in gallery posts or this
I truly wish I could find a use for this

Love those! is another one that I need to use more!

 

[IntenseMagic]

I love this one in a post that I pick someone's layout for a Froggie Fave.
Love this one for the idea of this post.
This one for chats and scraps that are while I am sleeping.

Those are all great! I was just looking for the other day and couldn't find him for some reason. I guess I was looking right over him.

 

[IntenseMagic]

I don’t use very many if any at all…not because I don’t want to but because I’m hyper aware in my field of work that not everyone can see them so I’d rather not exclude people. If I was being truly inclusive I’d use them and add image description along side so that people who are visually impaired and use screen readers and alternative tech can “see” them.

I totally understand that and thanks for pointing it out! Do you know if there are screen readers for computers that will read them? I know that VoiceOver on the iPhone will, but I can see where that could get confusing/overwhelming if there are a lot of them.

 

[littlekiwi]

@IntenseMagic I don’t to be honest….I actually don’t know a tonne about the assistive technology side of things at all (and to be fair I probably should).

 

[Karen]

I love emojis and want to use them all the time, but sometimes I get too lazy to look for the right one. My favorite one is the giggle one ---> I like to add that one when typing to make sure people know when I'm joking about something that might otherwise come off as snarky. Ha ha!

When I was still handwriting in my journal daily, I used to make TONS of tiny little emoji stickers to add in there. I loved that I could scan a journal page and get the gist of a day without even reading the words. I've gotten lazy and switched to a Google Doc for my daily journaling and the biggest thing I miss is my emojis.

 

[IntenseMagic]

@IntenseMagic I don’t to be honest….I actually don’t know a tonne about the assistive technology side of things at all (and to be fair I probably should).

Several of my students use the Read&Write extension for Google Chrome, since they all have Chromebooks. It was much needed this year since some were virtual and I couldn't always do the read aloud for them. But, it's a little quirky and doesn't read emojis.

 

[IntenseMagic]

I love emojis and want to use them all the time, but sometimes I get too lazy to look for the right one. My favorite one is the giggle one ---> I like to add that one when typing to make sure people know when I'm joking about something that might otherwise come off as snarky. Ha ha!

When I was still handwriting in my journal daily, I used to make TONS of tiny little emoji stickers to add in there. I loved that I could scan a journal page and get the gist of a day without even reading the words. I've gotten lazy and switched to a Google Doc for my daily journaling and the biggest thing I miss is my emojis.

Yep, that's me...I get too lazy to look for much other than . That's such a neat idea to use them in journaling to get the gist of a day! How creative!

 

[KimJ]

I've gotten lazy and switched to a Google Doc for my daily journaling and the biggest thing I miss is my emojis.

Did you know that Windows has an emoji thing built in? Just hold down the button with the "window" symbol on it and hit the period key and a little clickable box will pop up to choose emojis from. There is also an emoji menu in Google docs under insert special characters.

I am probably an over-user of emojis. I will often spend way longer than I should looking for just the right one. I have probably used almost all of them here at one time or another, but I think my most common are

 

[Memaw2Wm]

I don't usually use them, but this one suits my mood today ... I am attempting to round up all the Word documents on my father's computer and get them in one place so I can put them on his new computer ... I have NO idea how he created such a freaking mess.

 

[HavaDrPepper]

I understand that and yes, I tend to use the easier to type ones as well I reply in a hurry often!

There was a forum that I used to visit that had a poster that put at least 25 to 30 moving emojis in every single post they made and they posted quite often. That is emoji overkill. All they needed to make their point was a couple. And, there was no ability to block the user on the software.

I probably overused them in my past but as I've gotten older and with my vision issues I have become more sensitive to others that may have the same issues and have become more outspoken about these issues. I'm sure there are a lot of people besides me that have these problems that won't "rock the boat". I put an ad blocker on my browser because of obnoxious ads (too much movement in the ad). And if I go to a website that will not let me look at it without the ad blocker, I just don't go back. I'll find another alternative. JMHO.