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04-15-2017, 12:47 AM
Yes, old people totally understand emoji (except maybe that eggplant one)
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Parents, they just don't understand. Right?
Well, yes and **.*
A new survey shows that when it comes to emoji, most seniors totally do get it. Except, that is, with one tiny eggplant-styled exception.
SEE ALSO: Facebook's new emoji are finally available to everyone (http://mashable.com/2017/02/23/facebook-new-emoji/)
Great Senior Living, a site that focuses on senior care and retirement living, surveyed 500 people (https://www.greatseniorliving.com/articles/interpreting-emojis) aged 55 and older on their emoji use and discovered that contrary to any ageist **tions floating around, your parents and grandparents didn't just fall off the digital turnip truck.
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Parents, they just don't understand. Right?
Well, yes and **.*
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SEE ALSO: Facebook's new emoji are finally available to everyone (http://mashable.com/2017/02/23/facebook-new-emoji/)
Great Senior Living, a site that focuses on senior care and retirement living, surveyed 500 people (https://www.greatseniorliving.com/articles/interpreting-emojis) aged 55 and older on their emoji use and discovered that contrary to any ageist **tions floating around, your parents and grandparents didn't just fall off the digital turnip truck.
Over 86 percent of respondents had used emoji at least once, and a majority of them were deploying the pictographs in a manner we would deem to be correct.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/14/emoji-eggplant-confusion/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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