I'll try not to embarass myself too badly but here it goes.

Can we please have a WHOLE lot more emojis of a big variety?

I speak "engineer" and talk to engineers all day long to help them get their machines running and because of my technical backround and education I struggle badly to post and give context in a way that comes off friendly, impossible for me without emojis.

They say body language is 80% of communication but that's impossible when posting in the forum unless you can make up for it with peotry or something(which I can't do) so for the last year I have been experimenting using emojis as a crutch, kinda. <and it helps me>

Otherwise I fear my posts may come across as direct, curt, harsh, technical, etc and hard for me to add the context of my post "delivery" and delivery is important IMO.

Emoji's help cuz I can add context that helps fill in the 80% of cumminication that's missing.

PS- to see what I mean, read my posts from my first 2 years, dry, laser targeted, and technical. Add an emoji and changes the context.

PS- Plus I think emojis add fun!

If that's a dumb idea it's ok, just was wondering if anyone else struggles to not come off as a jerk when really trying not to.

 

Without adding them to our forum software, I think if you are posting from your smartphone or tablet you can paste all those emojis in directly

do these show up for you? 🤯👏🍕👾💀👮🏼‍♀️👙👓🐸

 

Hi Dave!

I can see them on my laptop monitor.
I review posts from my cell phone but I do most of my posting from my laptop cuz I can see better.

 

😱 😐 🩸

Can try copy/paste from here they may not work on all devices
https://getemoji.com/

 

Thank you Lex!
I can do that, works for me.