I’m not talking about #metoo stuff.
Assuming we’re using a sane IM app that lets us use standard emoji as a reaction to a comment.
I just mean when someone tells you that they did something and the only information that you want to convey back is that you followed them and did the same.
More concrete example that i encounter few times a week: my pal tells me he’s reserved the gym slot at 17:00, so I reserve that time too and i just want to reply “me too” to let him know it worked for me. (The way it works between us is that we want to go together but since he’s got family etc. i always let him pick the time first and just announce his slot reservation, and i just want to confirm it.)
Another example is if someone says “i signed this petition to support our Czech president who is protecting our democracy” then I want to say “yes I did it too”. Just a nod that we’re standing on the same side.
(Come to think about it, it could technically be used in a #metoo adjacent context, like, if a friend told me “i was abused by my boss” and i could just use the emoji but that would be sooooo wrong on so many levels… You get the point.)
I could see a few options based on context (I’ll skip things i saw already mentioned).
For example, your nod about the Czech president? 🙂↕️ do the nod. There’s also a no nod 🙂↔️. As a reaction it may be too small to notice what you mean though.You booked the same time for thing? 🫡, ✅️, you could also establish this with them and then use something like 🟢 for it.
🤝, 👥️, maybe 2️⃣ if you establish that as well. Basically I think you’d need to say at some point, “me too, *emoji” to set a baseline.
are these double-emojis a thing? or you mean those apps that let you add multiple reactions (sadly signal does not seem to allow that, neither telegram and those are the only 2 i really use i guess)
No I’m suggesting each individually as an option. Unfortunately I don’t know if an app that does multiple reactions from one person.
🙋♂️
🙋♂️ too
i mean, that’s a greeting, right? :D
(or “i want ice-cream too, please”)
➕️
While contextually it’s not specifically this, I have a selection I use at work thatmay get the point across.
👌when I really only need to ok or confirm my reading of the thing
🤌well said, great post, stuff like that. Occasionally I get to use it sarcastically when someone bungles up and hits send instead of Backspace.
🎉yay, awesome, any sort of celebratory language, like the ok but with enthusiasm
🧡everyone knows what heart means
🦀this is my little secret. I use it randomly on meaningless posts to sow confusion among my workplace. No one knows what it means, no one understands why I use it, but at the same time no one has been willing to ask me. Sometimes I drop it on a message in a particularly dull part of a teams chat and watch people absent mindedly add crabs to a post because they instinctively click it to show engagement. It’s honestly the little rebellions that make the day move along.
I love the crab story.
I would totally click the crab because if i’m in a good mood all it can mean is just someone being playful so it feels like a tiny adventure.
On the other hand, If you ever win huge amounts of money and decide to leave your job flipping everyone off you could also say “and those 🦀 's were a test and you FAILED! sheeple!”?
🤌well said, great post, stuff like that
is that what the stereotypical Italian hand thing means? i thought it was something rather negative or neutral but never asked…
I can’t speak for the modern thing. I understand the gesture as either the beginning of a chef’s kiss or a gesture to hold the attention on what you ar saying.
I think it only means that to Italians. For everyone else it’s a stereotype 😂
🙋♀️
🙋
my pal tells me he’s reserved the gym slot at 17:00, so I reserve that time too and i just want to reply “me too” to let him know it worked for me.
I would reply with a screenshot of my reservation
i mean if it was something like flight reservation etc. then screenshot would be definitely in place.
this is something we do literally 2 times a week (and plan to do so until we’re able to go to the gym :D) though, and it’s pretty low stakes.
i’m not looking for something that just works in that kind of context. (and in general, actually it’s not like i’m on lemmy looking to resolve things with my pal :D)
in my circles we tend to use the 🤝 as a way of saying “same” and i think it could work for this kind of context too
Another example is if someone says “i signed this petition to support our Czech president who is protecting our democracy” then I want to say “yes I did it too”. Just a nod that we’re standing on the same side.
✊ I guess this could work in context of political empowerment / grassroot movements
As someone aware of the ancient lore, but am in fact from the early continuance of the Eternal September: the AOL logo
In the early days of the WWW, there was an influx of clueless folks - often AOL users - saying “me too!” on anything and everything with little to no further input. It was among the earliest of Internet memes.
Oh. The AOL logo isn’t an emoji? Then 🔼 and 🔺 are close approximations. I’m not sure what, if anything, can set the colour(s) of those. My emoji picker says the first one should be white on blue, but it’s showing as white on orange as I type in the comment box. The second one is just red.
should be white on blue, but it’s showing as white on orange
my /usr/bin/redshift cronjob kicks in at 7 pm and sometimes i don’t realize and i get to be confused by colors. (probably nothing to do with the orange thing though, although i do have experience that my brain can imagine colors)
just sayin’
Nah. It’s not, or wasn’t, Redshift. Nor is it a vision issue. I can have the emoji picker on screen at the same time as my comment and they’re definitely very different colours.
I think the picker uses images, but the on-screen text renderer in Firefox is using the Noto Color Emoji font as a substitution (because the text font doesn’t have emojis) and whatever Firefox has set as the default colours for the glyphs in it.
My picker clearly doesn’t know how to generate the right modifier sequences to change those, and I don’t think it’s worth mucking around with Unicode zero-width joiners and colour modifiers to try to figure it out.
i get to be confused by colors
on second thought, i’m 45, old enough to be vaguely aware of ye olde internet culture (i was in uni back then so i saw them baby neckbeards but sadly did not have the good taste & judgment to hang out with them and decided to ruin my brain with beer and weed instead) … at this age we should start getting used to various vision issues :D 🧓
Thumbs up
If you want to express agreement, it’s usually 👆or ➕
If there was an action and you want to confirm you’ve done it, ✅ (or 👍 but that’s ambiguous between ‘I’ve seen this’ vs ‘I’ve done this’)
When I’m texting my fiance I use
👉✌️ or 👈✌️ or👆✌️
Depending on what application I’m using and which side my bubble is on. Showing me pointing at myself and the number 2 on fingers to mirror doing the same motion in real life
Just don’t accidentally send 👉👌 instead
i admit I already kinda seen all of those as “evening plans”
No emoji. Just +1
Me too 😸
+1/➕? But why not just use words to say “me too”? It’s not that long
it depends on the chat client / config but i like that the lower status of the reaction, ie. it does not even generate notification and a badge.
my pal can just totally forget about it and just check on it when he needs.
(it’s often times at random times in the middle of the workday when we exchange these messages so i want to be respectful to his focus.)
by the way we are both familiar with IRC where I think
+1would just fit the bill really wellnever realized ➕ is a good replacement for that.
I’ve been in similar situations in large or semi-large chat channels when you want to adhere to something and give the possibility to others to adhere similarly without flooding the channel with messages simply saying “me too”. So attaching an emoji reaction feels more adequate, that way anyone can just append their own and you can see groupal adhesion directly. Sometimes 💯 works, but it sometimes doesn’t.
EDIT: the more I think on it, the more an emoji saying “+1” feels like it should fill that need when 💯 doesn’t. Maybe someone should propose this to the Unicode consortium
Some might say thumbs up works for that, but there’s also an up or down arrow, which suggests a vote either way.
Writing words is so boomer. And reading them is so lame. Ticktock rulez!
darn i did not realize that.
i suppose i should vertical-record: the reservation app open in my librewolf, pan (swoosh!) to my hand on the mouse, pan (swoosh!) back to the monitor detailing the newly added reservation, pan (swoosh!) to my face winking and smiling with a thumbs up.
is that about right? i’m learning quick, am i not?
thanks for the support, so tiktok it is next time!
