I’m still quite green on this platform. To this post, I would actually like some responses, please, if you feel inclined.
I follow a blog on here. I found it early. They comment on things sometimes, which is how I first found them. I receive notifications of their posts – mostly quite a few, at least a dozen per day. Mostly not writing themselves, but reposting material. That’s fine, I can live with that. I can skim past the reposts very quickly, and just click through to the original blogger’s page if the title takes my fancy, or to show my appreciation.
This morning I came across “quote of the day” a regular. I quite like the quotes that people have come up with, little gems to help you start the day. This morning’s:
Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
Goethe
As far as I’m concerned, a great one-liner. In fact I’d go further and say that we should ecourage all the time, regardless of censure, sun or showers. That’s my #1 goal on here – I know it is small potatoes but I hope my likes and my comments encourage other bloggers. The late Tony Benn [a UK politician] was almost ninety when he died, and he used to say that the job of old people was to encourage. Again, for me, doesn’t matter what the age – we encourage each other, period. I think that the only thing about age is that the older you are, the more likely you are to actually realise that.
So I commented:
Thatβs our job. All ages really, but especially as we get older. To encourage.
and thought nothing more of it. I didn’t think it was particularly humourous. And just now, I had a “laughing” smiley face response, a π . Not a “like”, not a smile, not even a proper word, just one of these emoticon things that I never really got the hang of.
I know that over of Facebook, a “laugh” response normally means “your contribution is so pathetic that it makes me laugh”, i.e. purely sarcastic. But so far I have found wordpress to be a whole lot more civilised and yes, good-natured.
So I would be grateful if one of you old hands could explain to a noob exactly what they think this “comment” actually means.
I have found that WordPress users are more polite and genuine in there replies then either Facebook or Twitter users. A smile emoji on WordPress means just that,a smile.
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Yes I’m probably guilty of over-thinking it. Thus far I’ve found wp more pleasant, too. I use FB a little but not Twitter. That wp is pretty-much a subscription service probably makes a difference.
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I agree. I use a smile emoji like this π or this π to show appreciation. Or this π to show that I thought the post or comment was funny or witty. If I wanted to show sarcasm, I might use this π€¨.
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Thanks, that’s useful – seeing the icons all together they all look very similar to me. More importantly, those last two, at first glance I wouldn’t particularly associate them with tears of laughter or sarcasm. So most likely a combination of my vision and my lack of knowledge of, er, internet customs! I can manage smiley and sad faces, plus laughing, but at that point I run dry.
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Gawd, there’s a zillion of ’em. I found this: https://en.support.wordpress.com/emoji/
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Yes there are tons of emojis.
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ππΌ
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π
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‘Course, it’s one thing having access to all these icons, quite another to work out what they all mean!
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True!
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