Yeah. I think reactions emojis are just the gen-z version of the subject line:
RE: Here are the plans. Ack <eom>
In that sense they basically make sense and it should be unmysterious that people want them.
RE: Here are the plans. Ack <eom>
In that sense they basically make sense and it should be unmysterious that people want them.
Every time someone tells that something I use and enjoy is "the gen-z version" of something, I'm getting worried: is it me trying to keep-up with the cool kids?
Having a few "gen-z" in my team, I quickly came to the conclusion that trying to profile them in a single group was silly: they all behave differently, like every human ever did.
I think there may be two things at play here. One is that some people are just bad at adapting to social shifts and assume that everyone is the same way as them. The other is that people have gotten loose with usage of generation terms. So for some older people "gen z" = "person younger than me", while for some younger people "boomer" = "person older than me"
And both of those are problems with the speaker, so now I just ignore them and happily keep on doing the "gen z" things.
Anyway, the oldest gen-z is just about pushing 30 now, so they get to join us lame people with sore backs.
A Mail, even with just a subject takes a lot more space and leads somebody to answer to it which messes up the thread.
Yeah, that's why I came to like the feature. It's even visible at two places: in the thread list and on an individual email.
The only downside for now: the choice of emoji is too limited. I want my eggplant emoji! But given the history in Teams, where they started with a limited set of emojis, before adding all of them and finally allowing custom ones, I guess it's coming!