Do male members who use the 🥺 emoji think it makes them look cute?

Maezawa from the CEO’s office here, too. I don’t really use them myself, but back when mobile phones—not smartphones—were first becoming widespread, men hardly used emojis at all. Women were the ones who used them. There was even a general feeling that messages without emojis seemed stiff and scary, like, “Why don’t you use emojis?” That’s probably why men gradually started using emojis too. But then, among women, it became trendy to think that anyone who used emojis was an old guy. Sometimes I think the way the times change is frightening. Incidentally, before mobile phones became widespread, there was a period when pagers were popular. I remember being shocked when I was calling my company from a public phone and saw a high school girl at the phone next to me—there used to be rows of public phones outside train stations back then, haha—rapidly tapping the buttons like Takahashi Meijin, hanging up, picking up the receiver again, and continuing to tap away at high speed. To display characters on a pager, there was a chart where each character was represented by two digits. The vertical number was the first digit, and the number moving horizontally was the second. She had memorized the whole thing perfectly, so she could convert words into numbers just like speaking Japanese—and tap them in at incredible speed. Incidentally, early mobile phones could also be used to enter text with pager codes. Times certainly change. ```text 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 あ い う え お A B C D E 2 か き く け こ F G H I J 3 さ し す せ そ K L M N O 4 た ち つ て と P Q R S T 5 な に ぬ ね の U V W X Y 6 は ひ ふ へ ほ Z ? ! - / 7 ま み む め も ¥ & 8 や ( ゆ ) よ * # 9 ら り る れ ろ 1 2 3 4 5 0 わ を ん ゛ ° 6 7 8 9 0 ```

I’m Aya, a female member. None of the papas around me use those emojis… By far, most of them don’t use emojis at all. Based on my personal experience, the ones who use a lot of emojis tend to be romantics.

I’m Nana Ayase, a female member. LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL. So everyone uses it, huh? 😅 You’re working so hard—good job. I’ll give you a little pat on the head.

I’m Flagmaker, a column writer. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.

I’m Ayase Nana, a female member. LOL ꉂ(ᵔᗜᵔ*) So you’re using Seattle. He’s probably doing his best to keep up with younger women. So just chuckle to yourself and think, “He’s really trying his best—how cute,” and give him some credit. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Seattle