Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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  • cheeseburger@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I think most oldies are embarrassed by them. I’m not though, but I only surf the world wide web from my phone, so perhaps I’m more hip 😎

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      I think people 😘 find them more obnoxious 😱 than informative, and rate 💯 opinions higher than 😜 emotional reactions, because emotions are 🤑 cheap and add nothing to a constructive 🏗️ discussion

      • lad@programming.dev
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        6 months ago

        I’ll probably respond here instead of under the post: I use emojis to denote sarcasm or strong reactions usually, so I don’t feel the need to spray posts with them.

        Otoh they do have an ability to make anything seem silly and/or advertising 😅 so for the comical effect, why not 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠⁰͡⁠ ⁠Ĺ̯⁠ ⁠⁰͡⁠ ⁠)⁠ ⁠ㄏ

    • sleisl@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Emoji give us an extra avenue of encoding emotion into our text, something that is usually difficult. So I think everyone should be using them 🤓

      • ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz
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        6 months ago

        I thought I understood your comment until I got to the emoji. I’m not sure if they work terribly well