Are emojis only for old people?

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I was babysitting my niece yesterday and we got onto a discussion about mobile phones etc. She then said her and her friends only really use symbols when texting. Things like: :) <3
These I remember doing years and years ago, before emojis came along.
I asked her about emojis and she said no one really uses them anymore, that she only really likes the heart ones and never a laughing face, only the crying with laughter face.
I felt pretty old after that conversation, I’d it just me and I didn’t notice?

I don't think so. My DC use them, and so do my nieces and nephews.. and all their mates... All under 35... Some 20-25. Not sure about teens/tweens. Don't really know many now.

Didn't typing the symbols automatically convert the text into an emoji?

According to my 12 year old DD they're only used by old people and totally cringe. Apparently the old colon/bracket is acceptable but not emojis. I still love them though.😊

Embrace the cringe, it's always worse to be trying to be young. Besides being embarrassing can be great fun!

My 20yo never uses emojis any more. Her generation like the old style ones like :-)
Funnily enough about 8 years ago her friends were impressed that I used emojis correctly in my texts to her 🤔
personally I love emojis so won't stop using them

Bless then they think they did it first 😃 I think it is to do with being retro that they use the symbols , my dd is In her 30s ill let her know that she is old 😉

I think 💀 is the new emoji for young people instead of 😂 I see it on tik tok all the time.

My late teens/early 20s use them 🤷🏻‍♀️

My husband works for one of the new online banks and emojis are mandatory in their internal comms system- he has been told off for not using enough…..it’s a company run by younger people (he’s knocking 50).
So they are alive and well in that sector!

Yeah according to my DS, emojis are for old people and I notice he doesn't use them, but does the old style, like others have said. I don't care though, me and my old mates like them!

Define 'old' ?

Some of us are so old we never got into emojis in the first place.

Probably about 25 !

My late teens ridicule me for using them and the original text shorthand like 'lol'. Very 'boomer' according to them.

My 14 year old uses about a million of them per message. Definitely more emojis than words. 😂

I don't mind kids being kids but I can't stand this Boomer rubbish I had to have a word with my youngest about it !

I was having a similar conversation with DH this morning, and was thinking that emojis in a few years are going to be like txtspk is now. No one uses "wot r u up 2" type messages nowadays and I think emojis will go the same way as younger people find new ways to make communication "their own" if you see what I mean.

Pah! Bet they don’t even know how old ‘boomers’ are.

*Is it just me

@CallMeMabel That’s exactly what she said, she’s almost 12 too

My 13 year old and her mates use them... but more the hearts, the bow, the 👀 or 👁, the 💀 and 🔥

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My teens don't use them very often.

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So maybe it’s just the very young teens 🤔She also used loads of words I’d never heard of…like she said she only really texts emojis to her mum or cousin as they’re quite ‘Dry’ wtf 😂She also says things are ‘Crusty’ I have no idea