Emoji

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"Plate of chips one"! That's a great idea. ^grin]

No one uses it though. No one knows what it's for!

Don't believe it was specially designed. Reckon Cari just had it in her drawer and thought, "that'll do". (ie, shut her up).

Can't believe it's still there actually.

Haha yes, I remember that!

Somebody ( who shall be nameless) on GN had an emoji designed just for them!
It was a roast chicken. I was envious at the time, and thought of asking HQ for a plate of chips emoji to go with it.

Oh OK, it's cos they're smaller. Yeah, I get that. Wish we had more though. There's rarely one on the little GN list that expresses just what I want. Except this one , which I wish the other lot had (FB, twitter et al).

Why would I think we "old dears" (!!! bloomin' cheek) need emojis specially designed for us?

It's a matter of aesetics.

No. The Google (?) emojis just come up so small. Gransnet ones are brighter and more positive looking somehow.

I use the other kind of emojis on Messenger and on Twitter, but I just prefer GN ones on here.

I think GN's own emojis are more suited to Gransnet. Why? Do you think we old dears have to use emojis designed specifically for us? Not use the wide range of emojis everyone else uses?

I mainly use an ipad, but I know the emojis can’t be seen by everyone ( the apple ones)
We don’t have enough GN ones, why not?

Bathsheba

Yes - they're OK ??

I can't do those emojis on my desktop. But anyway, I think GN's own emojis are more suited to Gransnet.

??????

Well I've just found out how to do them on my laptop. Let's see if these appear properly...

It's odd, isn't it? I can see the emojis when using any Apple products, but not on my Windows laptop. I wonder why that is?

So it's not a case of people "thinking" they have used a non-GN emoji - they have used one, but it doesn't work across all platforms.

Does anyone know why some come out as little empty squares (snapshot)?

Any way of knowing which emojis do this?

I can only see empty squares when people put anything other than the sites (measly few) emojis.

Just testing.......?

Ooh it worked! Thankyou ?

I frequently see messages where someone thinks they have used a non-GN emoji successfully but all I see is a series of little empty squares.

I sometimes cut and paste them into Word to see what they really are.

??‍♀️It's WOODMOUSE49 again ??

I use a Macbook Pro. The drop down menu (see my snapshot) when I tried today a few times, was refusing.

It's happy now. ????‍♂️? Perhaps it had a bad night's sleep.

I can do it on my MacBook too ? ?! Thank you, Bathsheba!

I can do it on my iMac desktop - the 'emojis and symbols' are on the 'edit' drop down menu. I imagine it can be done from a Windows platform too, but I haven't tried that.

Me too ♥️??

It works for me WOODMOUSE ? ??