You DO want to be "with it," don't you?
The Daily Mail came out this week with a list of workplace emoji that Generation Z says are either offensive or totally uncool. And apparently Boomers aren't the only offenders. According to the article, Gen Z thinks Gen X and Millennials need to get with it, too.
If you don't want to be a square, here are the emoji that Gen Z says you should never use:
this one existed.
Boo-hoo!
I never noticed
this one, either.
Mwaaaah!
True confessions: I use the “thumbs up” emoji a lot in texts with my kids, but they started it, and I do usually follow up with a verbal message. Unless, of course, we're texting while I'm driving. (Joke!)
I think I used the red heart emoji as recently as Monday, wishing my son and daughter-in-law a happy wedding anniversary. They’re Gen Y, so they were nice about it.
I used the grimacing emoji in a blog post in 2017 – I hope that can’t still be used against me. I don’t think I’ve used it since. And I have used the clapping hands a time or two.
But in my work-related emails, the only emoji I use is the basic smiley face. I can’t even use the “thumbs up” because our email doesn’t have the capability. (At least, I don't think it does. Some Z’er could probably show me how.)
The Daily Mail article got a lot of comments, some pretty funny, from the "olds." This one made me laugh out loud:
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