Note by @fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

7mo

I must be old. I really don't understand emoji reactions. If I say "I'm on the bus and will be there in half an hour" to the group message, why do five people need to react with the bus emoji? A thumbs up or a heart or a smile I get. It communicates some sort of information. You like it, or you're happy, or whatever. But all reacting "bus" communicates is that...the word bus was in the original message, and you recognized it! Yes! Good for you! You recognized the word bus! Do you want a cookie or something?

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Steve @tewha@appdot.net

7mo

@fastfinge In my experience, it can be a "holy shit, I think there's an emoji for that" moment.

But yeah, mostly useless.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

7mo

@tewha So what you're saying is there's at least a couple guys in the group message waiting hopefully for the day when someone, somewhere, mentions an octopus. They'll finally get to use that one!

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Steve @tewha@appdot.net

7mo

@fastfinge 🐙

…I'm sorry, I had to.

(If your screenreader doesn't cooperate, that's supposed to be an octopus emoji.)

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

7mo

@tewha 🙄

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