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Why do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons? (lemmy.today)

submitted 10 months ago by Slow@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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

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[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 43 points 10 months ago

ITT: People conflating emojis and emoticons.

[-] pistachio@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In msn messenger emoticons were what emojis are today. So to me emoticons and emojis are the same... i dont what to call the things op refers to... maybe ASCII emoticons?

Edit: turns out im wrong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon

Edit: sort of wrong... emojis are also officially called emoticons

[-] indepndnt@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

It probably doesn't help that a lot of things will take your emoticons and automatically convert them into emojis for you. Like you type :-) and it changes it to 🙂 without even asking. I've run into this in a lot of chat clients.

[-] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'm confused. I do use emoticons and I rarely use emojis. What half of that is relevant here?

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Does the distinction truly matter?

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 10 months ago

In some ways no, but communication is complicated. Emoticons and emojis feel different when used I feel like. :) and 🙂 is not the same.

They're also used by different generations of people I think. So in that way it is meaningful to talk about them as separate concepts.

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