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

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For me emoticons were something that started when all of the boomers came to Facebook. Floods and floods of useless emojis left and right. So now I feel weird using them, like I’m cheapening the platform while also acting like the people that ruined Facebook for me

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Are emojis considered emoticons? Call me old but I think this is an emoticon ;-) and this is an emoji 😉

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Agreed! Although the little image things on message boards like phpBB, ProBoards and Invision were also emoticons, even though they were basically early onset emojis

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We called those “smileys”. May be a local thing though

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Because we prefer using words to express ourselves.

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I think most oldies are embarrassed by them. I’m not though, but I only surf the world wide web from my phone, so perhaps I’m more hip 😎

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I think people 😘 find them more obnoxious 😱 than informative, and rate 💯 opinions higher than 😜 emotional reactions, because emotions are 🤑 cheap and add nothing to a constructive 🏗️ discussion

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Most Emojis are useless, but many actually transfer the tone of a scentence, do they make sense. You simply dont need 99% of them.

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