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

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    • pistachio@lemmy.ml
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      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
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        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.

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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        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.