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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its just the group we have. I use basic ones sometimes. But I also come from a time before emoji existed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I still call them emoticons on occasion

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

use your words!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

They have better taste.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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Yes that's right it has perspective

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I don't really feel the need to use them to express myself. I try to use words instead :-)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use a phone and the more complicated emojis are harder to use 🤷

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

We could invert the question: why do people wherever you're contrasting use them more?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Good question 🤔

And Merry Christmas to all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is a discussion based social media. Smiley are cool for social medias like facebook

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

God damn the kids really don't know the difference. Anyways i use it less probably because I'm browsing Lemmy on my phone in-between other tasks, but maybe I'll start spicing things up.

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