Research by Slack and Duolingo shows that an emoji you send may be understood by the recipient in a completely different way.
We can say that the basis of emojis are text-based emoticons that aim to convey emotions without wasting precious bandwidth. A minus sign followed by a colon and parentheses allows you to create a smiley or sad face with just three characters.
Due to the nature of the IT industry, these small emoticons have turned into emojis over time with the advantages of the Unicode standard; There are currently 3,633 emojis. But while these emojis can be an easy shortcut to express your feelings, they can sometimes be perceived as surprising, annoying or even insulting.
For example, while the eggplant emoji means eggplant for more than half of the participants of the study in China, it has a “very different meaning” for the rest.
The research surveyed 9,400 employees from countries including the US, UK, India, Japan, and China, and revealed interesting differences in their use of emoji, although most employees find these characters essential when sending messages quickly.
Predictably, the use of emoji in messages to friends and family (almost three-quarters of respondents add a smile to almost every message with their friend) and the use of emoji in the workplace (just over half of employees use characters in messages with coworkers, while thirty percent never use emojis with their bosses). there is a big difference between
Unsurprisingly, the types of emojis used also vary widely between workplace and other places. For example, kisses, tongues, and other “more suspicious” emojis are definitely not considered appropriate for use in the workplace. Also, more than half of respondents expect the recipient to have sent an emoji before using it.
Another confusing emoji is the winged money emoji. Some people think that this emoji means money will fly away, while others think it means money will come.
It is also seen that there are different perceptions between the ages. Situations where the recipient misunderstands an emoji seem to be more common among the new generation.
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