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

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[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years 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.

[–] Slow@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I still call them emoticons on occasion

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use your words!

[–] Nuklia 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Kase@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

¯⁠\(o⁠â€ŋo⁠)⁠/⁠¯

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

They have better taste.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

[ . _.]

Yes that's right it has perspective

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[–] SkySyrup@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

(â‰§Ī‰â‰Ļ)

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] squiblet@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] small44@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Good question 🤔

And Merry Christmas to all.

[–] ani@endlesstalk.org 3 points 2 years ago

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

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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