No Emojis

I have managed over two weeks without using an emoji – both in social media and in answers to comments.

It turns out to be quite easy really.

There are times I’ve almost done a colon and a bracket as a smile, a very old habit, but I pulled myself up at the last moment.

I think I’ve also reduced my LOLs to about 2 instances and have dramatically reduced my use of exclamation marks!! (Ooops!)

Why? It makes you think more about what you actually want to say rather than decorating some words with what has become meaningless graffiti – a sort of graphic mumbling of meaningless nothings.

Try it…

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