Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?
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For me emoticons were something that started when all of the boomers came to Facebook. Floods and floods of useless emojis left and right. So now I feel weird using them, like I’m cheapening the platform while also acting like the people that ruined Facebook for me
second a few other comments, a lot of people conflating emoticons and emojis
- emoticon: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- emoji: 🤷
- emoticon: =>^.^<=
- emoji: 🐱
It’s understandable. Back in the old old days, these 😱 were often called emoticons. The reason was that the chat software that people used to automatically replaced ;-) by 😉. The menu was the same and the name of this menu was emoticon.
One of the most famous example of this is MSN Messenger.
People keep the habit to call them emoticons.
In the old old days, emojis didn’t exist yet, until NTT DoCoMo created them for mobile phones. Emoticons predate them.
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Because lemmy users tend to be tech literate millennials or older, who were using the internet before it became a widely popular and used thing.
We remember a time before emojis. And to us, there is art, and more meaning in continuing the old ways of using textual symbols in clever ways to convey an emotion.
Emojis are a cop out, a cheap and easy way to do the same, invented for a mass audience that didnt want to do any thinking or be clever in any kind of way and wanted it all handed to them.
I realize this may sound silly but I will die on this hill: emojis are for children and the technically illiterate, they are an appropriation of a culture spawned by some gen x and mostly millennials when the curious of us forged our own way onto what was at one point in time a frontier of seemingly infinite possibility.
I find them obnoxius, just like inserting animated gifs and meme responses. If used in serious context it makes the whole post look cringe, using them to replace words is fit only for smartphone troglodytes sending character-limited posts/SMS.
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Everything after ascii art was a mistake. It feels childish to use emoticons, a lot of users here grew up on platforms that only had text and to see emoticons is jarring. Needing to use an image for emotional context is poor writing.
I just find the generic yellow emojis used on most platforms annoying. Forums, Discord servers, or other sites that have custom emojis or older-looking “smilies” are more appealing to me.
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Emoticons are like swear words.
I use them sparingly not because I disapprove of them, but to preserve their effectiveness.
I have been sparing the almighty hell out of mine. When they drop it will be epic.
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Sure there is that. There is also the idea that adding emotions to a discussion adds nothing useful, and is a sign of immaturity when shown.
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I can’t wait to read printed text that has them to better enunciate certain plot points. Harry Potter could have used an 😱 or two to let me know in advance how to react to certain moments.
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I’ll give you that, emojis are good at quickly communicating intent in situations where time is short. But this is a message board, where’s the hurry buddy
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