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 🤷 or such but I'd like to try to be more eloquent.

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i prefer to use them in microblogging platforms like mastodon :3

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.

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

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

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Yes that's right it has perspective

They have better taste.

Good question 🤔

And Merry Christmas to all.

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

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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People keep asking this....