• flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    If it runs doom, I’ll allow it. If is anything near the abysmal Firefox TV OS on my shitty Panasonic TV, then hell, no! Never again…

    • myxi@feddit.nlEnglish
      64·
      3 months ago

      A lot of teenagers use it for some reason. It’s annoying because I’m a teenager myself, so I have to deal with my friends using it all the time. I went as far as ghosting some of my friends because they use annoying emotes all the time.

        • myxi@feddit.nlEnglish
          42·
          3 months ago

          Well, it depends on how you interpret their emotes. They constantly use that clown emoji, and so on. I interpret it as “not interested in talking to you” because, uh, I can’t explain why. It’s kind of because of all the circumstances in which I use those emotes when talking to my friends. I interpret their intent as how mine would have been. I frankly can’t take them as anything else; it’s a flaw.

          Also, I didn’t just start ghosting them for just this reason; it was usually for a few other reasons as well. For example, one of my former friends had habituated herself to calling people slang like dumbfuck on a regular basis. But I don’t use such words when talking to my friends; I find them harsh. I kind of used to get upset whenever she’d call me by such slang, even when I had done nothing that could hurt her. We simply aren’t compatible enough to remain friends. Her constant use of such emojis was merely a cherry on top, but a considerable one.

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
        22·
        3 months ago

        I knew some reply to this would lead us down the road of semantic pedantry.

        This is also a text message. Would you say I am texting you right now?

        • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
          4·
          3 months ago

          Its not SMS but PM’s could totally read pretty similar.

          And in most of the world they font use SMS; WhatsApp is the standard when someone says ‘text me’.

        • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          3 months ago

          Texting has usually been associated with sending a text message to a specific target, or specific targets in a group text, but not a room, forum, or public space. So yes, dms and texting are virtually identical. Posting on lemmy, reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc would not be, unless you again specifically selected individuals to send a direct messgae.