Yeah I use them all the time. Very helpful when conveying tone.

i just try to write fast so i dont have time to use emoji’s

it’s just personal preference 🤷‍♀️

I see Lemmy as an older crowd that prefers ASCII emotes. Although the do work in some situations.

Because they’re For children.

Check my post history, I guess. 😅

They’re helpful in providing the proper context to a text-based convo. IRL, you’d just see my face and body language and hear my tone and understand things better so we have to adjust when texting. This is why people feel like they need the “/s” for sarcasm and whatnot. 👍

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I tend to only use emoji when texting people I know, not when talking to strangers. Also, I’m on desktop here and so its more effort to use them than its worth IMO 😤

I think they’re annoying to look at and I have never felt the need to use them to communicate. I think that people who use a lot of emojis are usually stupid.

I have never been super big on them but use them. I do think they are overused in general but no necessarily here.

I like them. I use them infrequently because they’re a bit of a hassle to use with the piefed interface, and I haven’t bothered to install an emoji picker on my desktop, because I use them so infrequently. But I am a big fan of how they augment written language.

I tend to use them as tone carrying punctuation if I’m making a joke or expressing a particular emotional meaning 🙃 It’s rare for me to put an emoji anywhere but at the end of a sentence 🧓 Emotions are hard for me to convey at the best of times, and text-only communication makes it harder 🤷 and emojis can fill in somewhat where tone and cadence would in verbal communication.

It’s not a perfect analog and the medium of emojis is still so new that the meanings vary a great deal, to say nothing of how different emoji “fonts” can convey vastly different meanings. For example, the emoji “😕” can express a wide array of emotional states with particular mouth and eye attitudes, the orientation of eyebrows if they’re included, etc. A comment that says one thing in one font can express something quite different in another. It’s a problem we’ll need to sort out, eventually, but I don’t think it’s anyone’s top priority at the moment. Emoticons suffer less from that problem because the glyphs are more standardized: regardless of font, everyone recognizes “:)” as “generic smiling face”. Between that and the fact that I can render text emoticons without having to open another dialog or application, the vast majority of my emotes are text-based :)

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I like that it’s not much in use here.

I have to think more carefully about what words I type and how to convey my emotions in text. It’s good to practice written communication, and it’s good to be comfortable with it for when you want to be taken more seriously.

And I kinda assume those who splatter their text with emojis are bots or LLMs programmed to sound more human, or people trying to imply or invoke emotions to sell me on some nonsense or other, so I don’t read those comments or posts anyway.

It’s fun that Lemmy has its own culture which comes as a little shock but is easy to adapt to once you figure it out, isn’t it?

My “I’m being kidnapped, send help” secret code is “I start using emoji”