Gmail just got more reactive. Google is bringing emoji reactions to its email service, allowing users to add personality to their messages. Reactions Google is bringing emoji reactions like a thumbs up, party popper and a laughing face to Gmail.
      • liv@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yes, it’s a massive level of cringe.

        Gmail is convenient, but if it’s about to be filled with 😊 and 👍 then I’ve got to stop using it for any serious communication.

    • falsem@kbin.social
      15·
      1 year ago

      I work at a large company so get a lot of emails. This could conceivably cutdown on the amount of “Nice job!” type emails that don’t really have much substance.

    • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Outlook has had this for a while, and I use it a fair bit to acknowledge that I’ve read the email, but without actually replying.

  • emptyother@programming.dev
    25·
    1 year ago

    Eh… They chose to use the email protocol to send each emoji?! So external users or third-party clients (or school and work accounts for some reason) will be spammed. Won’t a bunch of gmails get marked as spammers then?

          • Chobbes@beehaw.org
            3·
            1 year ago

            Thanks :). I’ve actually been looking for the RSVP stuff and I wasn’t sure which RFC to look through (wasn’t sure if it was in the CalDAV one or the iCalendar one… and they’re weirdly huge). I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction!

            Also was curious how they were implementing reactions in e-mail. I actually think it’s a good feature, and it’s one that’s slowly been making it into XMPP and stuff. Emoji reactions and stuff sound kind of dumb and like a “whatever, who cares?” feature, but I find that on platforms like slack they’re actually a really good way to deal with quickly confirming something / finalizing decisions / quickly gauging the opinion of a group. I think a huge problem with e-mail and instant messaging is that they can be quite noisy, so having a “quiet” way to respond without having a thread explode is actually pretty welcome in my opinion.

  • SLaSZT@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year ago

    I’m struggling to think of a use case for this. Why not just reply and put an emoji in there?

      • rgb3x3@beehaw.org
        6·
        1 year ago

        I would think just email. Who uses email for anything other than formal communication anymore where it would be inappropriate to use emoji reactions?

        Reactions are fine for casual messaging, but email just isn’t that kind of social platform.

        • bermuda@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I assume it’s to cut down on wasted space from “thumbs up” and “Okay” emails.

      • SLaSZT@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        I thought it would be obvious because of the article headline, but email reactions. It’s undeniable that emoji are useful for communication, I’m just not convinced that this particular interaction with an email is anything that anyone asked for or needs.

        The only use case I can imagine would be for school/work accounts, but this feature isn’t supported for those types of accounts yet. I’d assume that’s because it’s not yet integrated into the Office 365 platform.

        The question remains: who outside of a corporate environment needs this? Maybe large families who communicate through chain emails? I honestly don’t know anyone who uses email to have group chats anymore, but I suppose those people must exist. Just seems like it would be a small number.