I’ve recently learned people don’t like it when you reply with just an emoji. Like just a laugh emoji. But….y’all I get SO MANY REPLIES. And I don’t wanna ignore people when they make me laugh or say something nice. But do you know how many spoons it takes to craft a reply to every single person!? 😫 - ThreadSky

erinbiba.bsky.social • 114 days ago

I’ve recently learned people don’t like it when you reply with just an emoji. Like just a laugh emoji. But….y’all I get SO MANY REPLIES. And I don’t wanna ignore people when they make me laugh or say something nice. But do you know how many spoons it takes to craft a reply to every single person!? 😫

Comments

leesha.bsky.social•114 days ago

The old school “lol” or “lmao”

Though nowadays that can just be sarcastic, hmm.

jcsalterego.bsky.social•114 days ago

likes take care of this IMHO

👍👍👍👍👍

erinbiba.bsky.social•114 days ago

Sometimes I just do likes! But sometimes I wanna do a bit more! I have a spectrum of replies! LOL

jcsalterego.bsky.social•114 days ago

i will take zero to as many spoons you've got for replies. no pressure from me

erinbiba.bsky.social•114 days ago

🥰

captaincurt.bsky.social•114 days ago

Emojis exist for the quickest “I see you I feel what you’re saying” it’s a big place this world and sometimes that nod is worth so much

kalynwulatin.bsky.social•114 days ago

I often use emojis...oops! (As someone else also said, I am GenX, maybe that is why?)

saffronsfloof.bsky.social•114 days ago

Who are these people? Sometimes that emoji makes my week!

shoutingboy.bsky.social•114 days ago

➕

moremoo.bsky.social•114 days ago

I know JFC

erinbiba.bsky.social•114 days ago

Awww I’m glad to hear that! 🥰

moremoo.bsky.social•114 days ago

I know. Many times that’s all I need.

paula2168.bsky.social•114 days ago

😊🌻

prosediva.bsky.social•114 days ago

Sometimes that is the only response I can manage.

reinamwilliams.bsky.social•114 days ago

I get very little interaction, and sometimes an emoji reply is all I can manage or think of. I appreciate emojis or likes or whatever, and most importantly, you don't owe people a reply. Sure, it feels good to be acknowledged, but a like on someone's reply does that too. 💗

shoutingboy.bsky.social•114 days ago

🤨

not-alice.bsky.social•114 days ago

I’d be surprised if that was the majority opinion, but I was very recently mistaken in a similar matter 😉

brightvoxaudio.com•114 days ago

This sounds like the loud opinion of a few people.

tricrocheteuse.bsky.social•114 days ago

Meh they probably also put two spaces after periods

70bpmhiccups.bsky.social•114 days ago

I think a lot of accounts don't realize how much of a shit show the notifications of folks with thousands of followers are.

christinepthoma.bsky.social•114 days ago

I'm Gen X we loooove emojis 🤗

shewithcapitalv.bsky.social•114 days ago

The fact you acknowledged someone's post with a reply whether with emoji or not is great as you've taken time to do so. Anyone who moans about an emoji doesn't deserve your reply - use your energy for others who'll appreciate you more 💖

harlansd.bsky.social•114 days ago

🫨

dynarski.bsky.social•114 days ago

Half of my interactions with my family are emojis

t0nyyates.bsky.social•114 days ago

Same - the kids don't do actual words now.

tandemkate.bsky.social•114 days ago

My teens communicate in:
1. Emojis;
2. Memes they then have to explain;
3. Acronyms they then have to explain;
4. Words which don’t mean what I mean when I use them.

This leads to a nice lot of actual conversation - fine by me!
Also means I’m probably more up on teen slang than when I was a teen…

t0nyyates.bsky.social•114 days ago

I get facial expressions if the fridge is not full enough.

tandemkate.bsky.social•114 days ago

Ooh yes, forgot facial expressions!
Also expression of feelings via shoulder angle. Surprisingly emotive from the back…
Teens are just sweet! (And that would have earned me an eye roll or exasperated shoulder if said out loud!)

stuartarnell.bsky.social•114 days ago

All those grunts that I used to utter as a teenager have found their voice as emojis.

stuartarnell.bsky.social•114 days ago

Phones as the saviour of familial communication.

You won’t see that conversation on Jeremy vine.

t0nyyates.bsky.social•114 days ago

Exactly communication has probably improved relative to 25 years ago.

lolapoliticka.bsky.social•114 days ago

Emojis count as a reply in many algorithms.

chronically-online.bsky.social•114 days ago

thumbs up...or not, I gather that's rude nowadays ? I don't know

peterf5188.bsky.social•114 days ago

The laughing emoji is GOATED 😂

walkingcorpse.bsky.social•114 days ago

As long as it’s not the passive aggressive 👍 that gets used on Slack or Teams I don’t see why it should be an issue. Anyway this doesn’t need a response, keep your spoons safe.

respiewak.bsky.social•114 days ago

🤷🏼‍♀️

shana.spoiledcat.com•114 days ago

😅

conflummoxed.bsky.social•114 days ago

👉💯

chrismey2203.bsky.social•114 days ago

jennifed.bsky.social•114 days ago

😮

fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social•114 days ago

I often bang off a quick “Haha!” I don’t know if that’s more personal, but it feels so, to me.

kallastra.bsky.social•114 days ago

I LOOOOVE emoji responses! It allows the convo to end gracefully! Otherwise I feel pressure to respond to the response when a simple laughing face or thumbs up or response is perfectly succinct!

damasterchief.bsky.social•114 days ago

Never bothered me -either way.

cookston.bsky.social•114 days ago

Spoons 😂

shoutingboy.bsky.social•114 days ago

🥄

erinbiba.bsky.social•114 days ago

This is a disability term! 🥰

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory?wprov=sfti1

cookston.bsky.social•113 days ago

I asked my 17 year old about it and he readily knew the term and was then suspicious why I was asking

belongia.bsky.social•114 days ago

My son tells me the thumbs up emoji is passive aggressive. I never heard of that. Now I don’t know what to do when I want to send a quick ‘like’ response to a message.

chronically-online.bsky.social•114 days ago

Apparently it's a generational shift
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/language-in-the-mind/202211/whats-so-wrong-about-using-the-thumbs-up-emoji