#humancommunication — Public Fediverse posts

Gizmodo: Using Emojis at Work? You’re Not Going to Like This Study 😮. “So, crying-laughing emoji, you’re not going to believe this—but, spiral-eyes emoji, a psychological experiment has found that incorporating emojis into your workplace communiqués might be leading your peers to perceive you as incompetent. But not always: the mercurial purple devil emoji, as always, is in the details.”

Daily Free Press (Boston University): ‘Call A Boomer’ phonebooth fosters cross-country, multi-generational connections. “Outside Pavement Coffeehouse, a plaque on a phonebox installed during the first week of March invites people to ‘call a boomer’ as part of a social experiment. When someone makes a call, a similar phone labeled ‘Call a Zoomer’ located in a senior housing complex in Reno, […]

Daily Free Press (Boston University): ‘Call A Boomer’ phonebooth fosters cross-country, multi-generational connections. “Outside Pavement Coffeehouse, a plaque on a phonebox installed during the first week of March invites people to ‘call a boomer’ as part of a social experiment. When someone makes a call, a similar phone labeled ‘Call a Zoomer’ located in a senior housing complex in Reno, […]

Daily Free Press (Boston University): ‘Call A Boomer’ phonebooth fosters cross-country, multi-generational connections. “Outside Pavement Coffeehouse, a plaque on a phonebox installed during the first week of March invites people to ‘call a boomer’ as part of a social experiment. When someone makes a call, a similar phone labeled ‘Call a Zoomer’ located in a senior housing complex in Reno, […]

COUNTERPRODUCTIVE

LinkedIn wants me to start building my relationship with Erik by sending a message that essentially says I am so uninterested in him that I don’t even think it’s worth taking the time to formulate my own words.

As a behavioural scientist (a real one, not the “Surrounded by Idiots” variety), I can state with confidence that giving Erik the impression that I am uninterested in him is not the most effective strategy for building a relationship.

Don’t get me wrong; I love technology, automation, and clever, time-saving solutions. But it is nonetheless entirely counterproductive to use them in actual interpersonal communication.

At least if you want relationships with people, and not to treat them like trading cards.

You would think LinkedIn, of all places, would understand this.

#LinkedIn #Relationships #HumanCommunication
#BehaviouralScience #Automation #Digitalisation
#Authenticity #ProfessionalRelationships #WorkingLife

University of Oslo: Emojis bring facial expressions and hand gestures back into our conversations. “‘The vast majority of people use emojis, individuals of all genders and in all age groups,’ says Professor Patrick Georg Grosz from the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo. Research on people’s emoji use shows that faces and hearts are at the top of the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/university-of-oslo-emojis-bring-facial-expressions-and-hand-gestures-back-into-our-conversations/

University of Oslo: Emojis bring facial expressions and hand gestures back into our conversations. “‘The vast majority of people use emojis, individuals of all genders and in all age groups,’ says Professor Patrick Georg Grosz from the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo. Research on people’s emoji use shows that faces and hearts are at the top of the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/university-of-oslo-emojis-bring-facial-expressions-and-hand-gestures-back-into-our-conversations/

Talking Heads is reviewed in the august pages of the Connacht Telegraph! And it's 0.99 on Amazon Kindle today. So go buy it! You don't even have to read it (but you should!).
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Praise-Talking-Shane-OMara-ebook/dp/B09X99TWLS

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2023/09/30/this-week-a-new-temperance-brennan-novel-from-kathy-reichs/

#MemoryAndConnection #HumanConnection #ConversationMatters #SocialBonds #MemoryLoss #CommunityBuilding #HumanCommunication #LanguageAndSociety #ShaneOMaraBook #MemoryStudies #CulturalInsights #AccessibleScience #FascinatingRead