I feel like emoticons are in some ways cheating at using words and thus it shows a lack of effort put into your communication. I use them mostly in quicker format messaging like Discord. I don't blame anyone for using a 𤡠or such but I'd like to try to be more eloquent.
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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i prefer to use them in microblogging platforms like mastodon :3
use your words!
People use words to express their feelings rather than emojis.
Emojis are less serious and a comment that uses them extensively is taken much less seriously than a comment without emojis.
Perhaps this impression is due to the fact that young social media users have devalued these images. You may have seen short messages in various communities consisting of many emoticons. Perhaps the sequence of images means something, but is perceived as spam.
I don't really feel the need to use them to express myself. I try to use words instead :-)
They have better taste.
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We could invert the question: why do people wherever you're contrasting use them more?
Lemmy is a discussion based social media. Smiley are cool for social medias like facebook
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