Why though
Because innovation is their passion, and clearly e-mail needed to be innovated on.
I work at a large company so get a lot of emails. This could conceivably cutdown on the amount of “Nice job!” type emails that don’t really have much substance.
Oh that’s a good point, it could help in professional settings
If it cuts down the Reply to All good job chains, I’m for it.
Outlook has had this for a while, and I use it a fair bit to acknowledge that I’ve read the email, but without actually replying.
This is giving me “how do you do, fellow kids” vibes.
Yes, it’s a massive level of cringe.
Gmail is convenient, but if it’s about to be filled with 😊 and 👍 then I’ve got to stop using it for any serious communication.
Why?
🤷♀️
Great!
More reasons to use Gmail Go or an alternative e-mail client. 🤓🖥️
Or switch off Gmail altogether.
HR: This email is to inform you of concerns about your professionalism in the workplace.
Me: 👍 🎉 😂
🥵🤤🍆👅💦💦
HR: 🎀☠️
Eh… They chose to use the email protocol to send each emoji?! So external users or third-party clients (or school and work accounts for some reason) will be spammed. Won’t a bunch of gmails get marked as spammers then?
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Which RFCs are you referring to?
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Thanks :). I’ve actually been looking for the RSVP stuff and I wasn’t sure which RFC to look through (wasn’t sure if it was in the CalDAV one or the iCalendar one… and they’re weirdly huge). I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction!
Also was curious how they were implementing reactions in e-mail. I actually think it’s a good feature, and it’s one that’s slowly been making it into XMPP and stuff. Emoji reactions and stuff sound kind of dumb and like a “whatever, who cares?” feature, but I find that on platforms like slack they’re actually a really good way to deal with quickly confirming something / finalizing decisions / quickly gauging the opinion of a group. I think a huge problem with e-mail and instant messaging is that they can be quite noisy, so having a “quiet” way to respond without having a thread explode is actually pretty welcome in my opinion.
I’m struggling to think of a use case for this. Why not just reply and put an emoji in there?
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Are you talking generally about emoji reactions or just when it comes to email?
I would think just email. Who uses email for anything other than formal communication anymore where it would be inappropriate to use emoji reactions?
Reactions are fine for casual messaging, but email just isn’t that kind of social platform.
I assume it’s to cut down on wasted space from “thumbs up” and “Okay” emails.
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I thought you just reply with the letter “J” that’s the convention, right?
😱
Can we not
