Don't you like Emoji?

I’ve been conditioned over time to not use them on internet forums but I use them a lot when texting. So it feels kind of weird to see one around on a Lemmy comment but I don’t hate them

Emojis seem like another language to me now. The last time i used emojis for regular communication it was on AIM

Emojis remind me of LLM slop

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

it’s just personal preference 🤷‍♀️

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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. 👍

I probably use the 🙃 emoji most.

Because it does not really have an equivalent in ASCII emoticons.

I don’t like them.

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

I don’t like them and don’t want to see them in a discussion forum.

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?

I’m about tired of emojis. For a while to me, emojis are weaponized by people who post snarky responses and just want to use an emoji as just an indirect snub to add to it. The fun of using them has been ruined from that and people that feel the need to spam fucking a chain of them.

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 😤