The Big Tech Show: Emojis, ringtones and loudspeakers – The 10 tech habits that mark you out as older

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Do you have a thick phone wallet? Do you use a novelty ringtone or set notifications to ping constantly? Is the crying laughing emoji one of your go-to texting characters? Well, you may not think of yourself this way, but you're middle aged.

On The Big Tech Show this week, Adrian is joined by assistant producer, JJ Clarke.

Adrian kicked off the conversation by talking about the older generations' annoying habit of leaving their ringtone on in public places. There was some daylight here between Adrian’s and JJ’s view on this, with the latter stating that he believed it was the time it took to stop the ringing was the issue.

Overuse of certain emojis is a hallmark of people who have aged out of the zeitgeist. Adrian spoke about the overuse of the crying laughing emoji. He said it was used like punctuation by this type of phone user and that every message from one of these senders will include it.

You can listen to the full episode here on the Irish Independent website or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Big Tech Show: Emojis, ringtones and loudspeakers – The10 tech habits that mark you out as older

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