We often use emoji in our work emails or messages. But if you want to impress your boss in the office, then you should curb this habit. A recent study showed that emoji are seen as less powerful than words. That is, excessive use of emoji can question your seriousness.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have revealed that people who included pictures and emoji in their emails were less influential than others. Today we are all used to communicating with pictures and social networks make it both easy and fun, the researchers said. But especially in a work or business environment this habit makes a bad impression. Because it indicates low power.
Think twice before sending emoji
Our advice is to think twice before sending a picture or emoji to people in your organization among whom you aspire to have a powerful identity, the researchers said. In the study, the researchers also conducted experiments to understand whether the use of photographs in email affects people’s perceptions of work at work. The team conducted a series of experiments in which hundreds of participants were presented with different daily scenarios.
People who use emoji are less powerful
The results of the research showed that less powerful people desire social closeness than powerful people. As a result, people seeking social closeness using pictures or emoji are inevitably less powerful. It should be noted that such cues are usually irrelevant in close relationships, as in communication between family members.
Mobile company used for the first time
Emoji is made up of two words, E and Moji. In Japanese, e means picture and moji means character. That’s why emoji are also called pictorial messages. It was first designed by Japanese designer Shigateka Kurita. Emoji were first used by Japanese mobile phone companies in the late 1990s to express an emotion, concept or message in a simple, graphic way. However, now Twitter feeds, text messages and Facebook posts are considered incomplete without emoji.