How-To 👨🏫 Use Emojii 😉 and Hashtags #learnsomethin😎 On Swell #🌊 Like a Second Language Online💻
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Hey, Swell community. I just wanted to take a moment to start a conversation about Emoji and about how Emoji are really genuinely their own language. Like learning a foreign language, learning how to use Emoji and integrate it successfully into your conversations online immensely at value. And they immensely give it depth. So I'm going to send a few examples here. Let me give some demonstration clips
Okay. So let's say that I was going to have a conversation about, hey, anyone out there? I really love walking my dog, and I just can't believe how much I love my dog. But I've never owned a dog before, and I really enjoy the experience. But I have to say the one thing I don't like is picking up dog poop. Okay, let's say that was the example
Now you can see that in that example, I picked a graphically represented like Hieroglyphics using emoji the description of what that spell was about. Let me give you guys another example
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Excuse me, I need some coffee. It basically is as effective as communicating face to face, if not really one because the experience of already talking is so natural with this platform. It also gives you the benefit of basically categorizing and tagging and extending the ability to communicate
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:42
Go get your coffee. You keep making me on. This is a great topic. Hold on. I'm always extremely lazy and also have a hard time. I'm figuring out it's too early. I always forget to tag my stuff and I always forget HowTo use emojii and things like that. Can you get out of my conversation? These kids, man
It's really funny, though, but you know, that's, like, the power of this platform is that we're not talking like you and I were online traditionally, as we've experienced the internet. It up until now, we're communicating instantly, like we've been friends forever. Sorry about that jump, but I accidentally hit the pause button. It's really weird because it doesn't feel like I'm talking to someone, somebody online
Now that I'm looking at it, I really wish that like the hashtags were on their own little block. And then like all the emoji Tags could be separate, like on their own little blind. Because in this instance, we could create hashtags with emoji that capture more than what just words can say
Like, you see what I just did there? I used the hashtag wave to mean half a hashtag swell. And so that's a visual hashtag. Now it intuitively means what the hashtag means. And it's like for this platform now, hashtag swell. Well, Emoji basically, is a visual way of quick handing that we're talking about the platform. So it's like our own private but public version of Court stenography
And like my last one, I used the hashtag text to describe the content of the audio file so people can quickly look at the little hashtag texts and see what it's about. But I communicated my head space and my emotion and encapsulated my personhood HowTo use emojii. And that instance, it was like, Are you following me
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 1:19
Usually whenever I talk to people online or it's been a while since I've been on a social media platform, but usually nobody hears my kids or kind of forgets to exist whenever I'm texting or things like that because I don't post my kids online for one versus now it's like I just had to go sit down in front of the TV just so I can have a conversation. You know what I mean? Because they are terrible about interrupting
Wow, man, that was some deep, deep cut wow, yeah, 100% with you on that. And also don't forget to tag your stuff with hack hashtag Ocean Wave when we're having a thought that we're expressing about swell and see if we can maybe push that and start that on the platform and make it really easy to find all the stuff that's talking about swell itself
You know, as I'm starting to apply these ideas, as I'm experimenting with them, I feel a bit like a person who is an artist whose painting with a new medium. I love to talk and talking as an art form. And all those subtle nuances that are normal to being a real human being. Having a real conversation, face to face are there with the platform. But it's like because it's still a social media platform
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 1:18
So I love using Swell for that personal reason because it's like I miss out on genuine conversations a lot. I miss out on genuine interactions. Therefore, it's hard for me to put words in the coming out of my mouth thing. I'm just an awkward duck anyway, so it's been hard for me my entire life to talk, but I like your thought process on how mixed with technology and genuine conversation and how it enhances the whole experience. That was a good point there
And I don't currently have a license. And I don't have my own car right now. And I could only go out into the community, which is 20 minutes away driving when my fiance and I go out together. And so I do become isolated. And I live my life isolated. And for me, this platform is life changing
I think you'll find that when you use the facial emojis, the body language emoji, and the hand gesture emojis, as well as intangible things like, I'm really hot right now or I'm really cold. You can enhance what you say or type
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:40
I don't have a license either. And my husband is a truck driver and is only home 34 hours a week. So you can imagine how much I get out. Personally, I live in a cul de sac outside of town. So it's kind of like the best of both worlds, you know, don't have a deck. And there's trees
Well, there you have it, fellows. Swellers. I like that Swellers. It's like, Feller, because I'm country and I'm from the country, and it's like, hey, how you doing there, fella? And it's like, Sweller people that are my swell, Feller. Oh, my God, I'm such a redneck. And I can't believe I'm about to post this, but, yeah, there you go
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