Asklemmy

Emoji whatever you want. Cheers🍻

Why do you even give a shit?
Use as many or as few emojis as you like, why waste your time and energy caring about some imaginary internet points (or worse - if some random stranger likes or doesn't like emojis)?

Hate is a strong word. I’d say I dislike them. And it’s probably only because I’m not a teenager.

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, many times people get the wrong message, but with an emoji you’ll get an idea of the face I’m making, so less chance of misunderstanding

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Several emojis are quite ambiguous in meaning or interpretation, including because of intercultural factors (eg.: U+1F626 FROWNING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH , or any of the praying / reverence / salute emojis). You, or rather your readers, also have no guarantees that the emoji they are seeing unambiguolsy matches the one you wanted to send and has not been misrepresented in transit or because of the provider (eg.: U+1F52B GUN which was rebranded into WATER PISTOL at different points by different providers).

In comparison, a classic Unicode / ANSI / JIS smiley is basically unambiguous and has two to four extra decades of context.

A simple text, even an acronym, is even better, for example rather than trying to express extreme displeasure at someplace else's lack of good gun control laws with a "prohibition sign" and "~~gun~~ water pistol", you can use the even simpler text message of "your gun laws are bad".

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I love emojis too :))

I need to get an emoji keyboard for my computer, because I feel so rude whenever I can't type '😅' or another fitting emoji 😅

Back in the day there was an advertisement for Infocom that said "A picture is worth a thousand words, we'd rather give you the thousand words"

A few emojis are okay. That meme spam of putting one every two words or so is a waste of screen space.

Also what everyone else said: they are different everywhere so the meaning gets lost. Twitch emotes work for conveying meaning well because they look the same for everyone.

I think it's down to not wanting to be told how to feel about something, for me at least.

In addition to that most emojis diaplay really exaggerated emotions, so they're not even depicting OP's feelings that accurately.

I personally just think they are absolutely dumb compared to emoticons. I won't downvote a post/comment solely because of them, but I still think they're dumb.

My guess is the crowd here are less emotionally focused and more into STEM for a lack of a better term.

🤓 elitism

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i use text ones like ^_^ and :3

but i also love blobcats

and blobfoxes too!

We've come a long way from cave drawings and hieroglyphics. We've developed languages capable of expressing tiny details in amazing clarity; succinctly, pointedly, and without confusion as to their meaning.

And yet there is a whole new wave of people unable to use those languages correctly or even rudimentarily who drag civilization backwards by returning to hieroglyphics.

I'm almost of the opinion we've reached "peak human" and are now backsliding. Yes, of course it's self inflicted - how else could we as a species do an 'about face' and head back to cave dwelling? However it happens and whomever is responsible, here we are... and we're losing ground fast.

And things like emojis are leading the charge.

Despite having more emojis than most lemmy instances, I still rarely use them myself, but that's mostly because they're not intuitively built in to the reply/post UI/flow. You can get to them, but it's a bif of an effort 🤷‍♀️

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I don’t like them because they can often be hard to see. There are so many of them now, and navigating them (for me) isn’t always easy.

I like the simple text based approach. Emojis invade every other aspect of online communication; it’s nice to have a place where I don’t feel pressured to insert them, especially for someone whose eyesight isn’t the best.

That’s just my rationale, but I can’t speak for everyone.