Emojis Help, But I Dislike Those

The era we are living in is becoming more minimalistic day by day.

The various technical functions, advances are making us more and more lazy lately.

The ‘SpellCorrect’ function in mobiles suggests the short forms to what we want to say, like “LOL, WTF, MU, ILU, DK” and whatnot.

Emojis are very much part of the same type.

No efforts at all, I think the breathing is what we do religiously and without any shortcuts.

We are not even taking enough efforts to write it properly, I don’t know what we are rushing for.

I am from a time when we used to sit with pen and paper to express ourselves in words.

The thought behind each line, the way we used to put it in the limited space we had in that ‘Post Card’ or ‘Inland Letter’, every word meant a lot.

That only made us read that letter again and again, to feel the person who wrote it.

Emojis, I feel, are okay.

But I feel it’s a lazy way of responding.

We keep chatting with 10 others at the same time, and then the less important people, just to respond and continue the discussion, we put the Emoji.

The more the emojis, meant more of that feeling.

I do understand, when it’s difficult to express ourselves in words, like for a condolence message, the Sad emojis help convey our message.

But words put properly give the right message.

I am not against the Emojis, I too use them, but there is a guilt in using them.

Emojis meant that you are not that important in the interaction, or “I don’t have much time, so take it”.

I don’t know, it’s all my point of view.

Maybe I am getting old.

What are your views, my friends? Curious to know.