This piece will tell you about how something that might be innocuous for us can be considered ‘rude’ to someone else.
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From Baby Boomers and Gen-Xs’ confusion about millennials, now comes everyone being confounded by Generation Z. There are a lot of behaviors that Gen Z (much like any young generation has) displays that are not as easily understood by those older than them
A lot of young people apparently do not think the ‘thumbs up’ emoji is a nice one and consider it to be ‘passive agressive’ referring it to as something that can even prove to be ‘triggering’ to some of them.
A Gen-Z individual who recently joined the workforce shared, “I started an ‘adult’ job where we use Microsoft Teams to connect with each other for work. Currently, there only a few emojis you can use to react to a message (unless of course, you respond, and can use any emoji). Most people at work use the ‘thumbs up’ reaction all the time.”
They went on, “I don’t use it much. I either ‘heart’ reactions or reply, even if it’s a short ‘Great!’ or ‘Thanks!’ (I also feel like I usen too many exclamation marks, but that’s a different story).
