Are emojis only for old people?

[Justwanttodonothingtoday]

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?

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I don’t think most devices do that anymore, that only seems to happen in Outlook on my laptop. Android devices now have a whole menu of the old emoticon symbols so you can use them really quickly (I have an iPhone but DD was showing me on her phone)

Well, I'm phasing.

I love an emoji 🧓

25 is old?! Who d'ya think YOU are??? Leonardo DiCaprio?! 😂 Or should that be 💀 ???

Oh god im old and love emojis

HA🤣

Yep! Even the oldest people who grew up with l33tspeak via BBS, pre-internet, would be Gen X rather than boomers.

Someone on here recently said that they thought 🙄meant “ see text above”. She was asked to please come back and tell us of instances when she’d texted thinking that was the case. Don’t think she did though.

My early-mid 20s DDs wouldn’t use emojis now.

I am in my 50s and have never used emojis but I do love a gif. So according to my teenagers, GIFS are 'cringe' and only old people (meaning me) use them.

My teens (16 and 18) use them, as do their friends.

Ha! I thought I was an old fogey because I still use the old style :)
Turns out I’m the avant-garde!

People new to the resources always over-use compared to those more familiar with them / who grew up with them. Like when it became possible to do colour in emails etc and people went a bit crazy then most stopped

I think the fact you called it a 'mobile' phone rather than just a phone means you're old in the younger generations eyes 🤣🤣

Emojis do look a bit childish - so not 'dry' in the latest speak. What do they cost to send?

I’ve heard this.

I suppose the beauty of being old is that you don’t care in the slightest whether a 12 year old thinks you’re cool or not, so I must indeed be old!

My 12yo thinks emojis are "zesty" (camp) and doesn't use them

I'm 42 and love ❤️ and emoji

*an FFS 🤦🏼‍♀️

I use them.. mostly the laughing face or 😫 this one if I’m stressing. I’m 34. My 12 yo DD only really uses 😭 for crying laughing or 💀 to implied she’s ‘dead’ from laughing I think?!

I am very very uncool and old though according to her. Though 4yo DD things I’m the best thing since sliced bread (and has no idea what an emoji is).