No offence intended ?

Just don’t send an aubergine emoji..

Yes, if you phone someone they are expected to stop what they are doing to attend to your phone call.
I have been aware of this and being a polite person I always ask friends whether they're okay to talk or in the middle of something. With a friend it's likely to be fairly long and chatty so I'm quite happy to postpone the call.

Kim19 The tall oblong symbols are your browser or your app saying to you, "There should be an emoji here, but I don't know how to display that one."

I wonder when, and by whom, these things are decided? ??
I shall continue in my own sweet way - I certainly don't consider myself to be passive aggressive, but who knows, maybe, inadvertently, I am. Ah well, never mind.

As for phoning being rude, how ridiculous that is.

I can't help using punctuation, either - it's the way I was taught at school. ??

Always thought emojis a bit childish myself. Dont often use them.

Goodness, I am in my mid fifties and I didn’t know any of this. I thought l was getting quite “with it” too.

Oh, and I will continue to use punctuation correctly.

Jaxjacky

Just don’t send an aubergine emoji..

thank you for the validation.
my neighbour wouldn't believe me when i warned her about this. she asked why, what did it mean.
so i told her. then she made as if i'd made it up.
i was trying to help. why bother. routinely dismissed, undermined.

Why try to copy young people, its there thing ,and will keep changing as its just all fun to them. I just act as an adult, text my message and sign of lovingly to family or politely to anyone else. Why does everyone over 40 think they have got to keep up with teenagers. When we were teenagers our parents didn't behave this way, they accepted we were young and did our own trends and they acted as adults.

can't see the point ! excuse pun, of using a full stop at the end of a text message.
but didn't know it might be considered aggressive.
just seem waste of time to me. serves no purpose. takes longer.

maybe because it is not just the language of the yoof.
text and email is now standard business communication.
i would guess that most business is conducted this way, rather than by formal written letters, or snail mail.
so it has become mainstream, the dominant cultural norm.

my last comment in response to Lillian40.

It would never occur to me to use an emoji. If they are supposed to add nuance to a short message, today's story shows that they have completely failed. So why not go back to writing what you want to in the first place?

Aldom

What I find rude and annoying regarding the phone is when I am being served in a shop or similar face to face situation and the business phone rings. What does the assistant do? Stops serving me to take the phone call. Why oh why does the phone call take precedence over the customer who took the trouble to travel to the business venue???

I have just changed pharmacy because of this. the assistant walked away right in the middle of serving me and didn’t come back leaving her junior to try and deal with my problem that she had no knowledge of.

Keep using ? Don’t be ?. By the time we’ve learnt the new rule, the old one will be back. Not using full stops -some people never learnt how in the first place, so let them have their happy time. ???

Emoji, can take them or leave them. Poor darlings, many of whom can’t even spell, or have been taught to, or can’t even string a proper sentence together, complaining about emojis and the full stop. DLHU.

I don't know what half of the emojis mean. I just use them if I like the look of them so no doubt I am offending a lot of people.

I was mortified a few years ago to discover the LoL didn’t mean, as I had thought, ‘Lots of Love’, but ‘Laugh out Loud’! Apparently it’s a common mistake!

I won’t be sending any ‘aubergines’ whatever they mean, although I think I get the gist! ?

I don't use emojies. Words are just as good.

Now I know why ( Utility) companies don't answer when we phone, they just consider us rude! and if we send them an email with a complaint but with correct grammar & full stops we are being passive aggressive.

Ailidh I too have benefitted from a Scots education some 60 years ago. I am a bit of a grammar pedant too - writing has to be grammatically correct or it risks different interpretations. I use emojis but only a few that I understand and if I want to be ironic I will say so . Not likely to be texting teens now anyway as they don’t speak English!!?

Brilliant thank you for that list, I never know what the mean either.

I totally agree with Chewbacca. Without intending to, I’m probably causing offence and not even realising what I’ve done. I beg your pardon.
Eats Shoots And Leaves, eh?
Or old dog, new tricks?

Hilarious!?

So grammar and punctuation is wrong now! Oh dearie me. I will continue to do what I’ve always done, that’s the rebel in me. Shock Horror! ???