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I much prefer emoticons over emojis, but I couldn't tell you why.
Nostalgia :'(
Because weβre the last of the old guard? Iβm gen z, and honestly I still prefer emoticons, probably because I grew used to them before emoji
Older gen z and I remember sometime in my mid teens most chat apps started automatically converting emoticons into emojis. It bugged me to hell and back you either had to swap :) to =) or turn them back to front to avoid getting "emojified"
Iβve turned to adding a ZWSP (no width Unicode) between the : and ) parts of the character, that works pretty well. Itβs a bit of a hassle, of course
Oh, nice tip! Any good way of emulating that on a mobile Android keyboard? Or do you just copy and paste a lot? Perhaps this could be done with a custom autocorrect dictionary injury?
does ΓΌ get converted
Nothing beats O.o and :/ for me
because cute
( Ν‘Β° ΝΚ Ν‘Β°)
Personally, it's because emojis are just tiny yellow dots on my phone's screen.
It might be an attention thing. With an emoji in a post your eyes are drawn towards the cute colorful picture before you l've read the content of the post. Emoticons on the other hand don't stand out as much, but serve a similar purpose: punctuate a thought with an emotion (=
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Stupid question : what is the difference between an emoji and an emoticon?
Emoticon is made with text characters like this " :) "
Thanks
Not a stupid question! This is an emoticon:
And this is an emoji: π
Thank you
I use both at random just depending on how lazy I'm feeling or if I know the shortcode for a particular emoji off by heart. All gets the point across just the same :D