:D will forever be better than its emoji counterpart
😀
shudders
It just does not convey the same feeling.
Especially that one with the teeth.
You should at least use the normal smile emoji 🙂
:P is appropriate a lot of times when 😛 is not, and the latter is what slack converts it to. 😋 Is what they should use. One looks like you’re being silly, the other looks sexually desperate.
Yeah, there’s a kinda cheeky tone to :p and ;p that none of the graphical ones I’ve seen have captured. :S is another one, where I see it as half smile, half frown/sad. Like “this is amusing but also horrible” or “putting on a smile despite everything being awful”. Any of the smileys on my phone that have more than one curve for the mouth look either crazy or sick.
:I is one of my favs
:|
I work in a technical field. My work email changes “<3” to a heart emoji.
Pardon me, sir. I was not expressing my admiration, its just that your analyte concentration is less than the measuring range of my instrumentation.
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Emotions take more effort than emoji these days.
Oh for duck sake I hate it when it does that!
Another reason why I miss my full keyboard: I could tell autocorrect to bend over, snap it’s spine and fuck itself with it’s own spinal cord.
I see this as an example of either how little some people making decisions in tech companies know about what people want or about how different the things I want are from the majority of people.
Your framing is wrong. They know some people have preferences. They just don’t care because emojis drive engagement, which drives revenue for many of them.
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I’m old. I don’t understand what people are trying to tell me half the time they use emojis.
Who in tarnation is cooking an eggplant peach dish that’s splashing? I saw my daughter’s text messages and her boyfriend didn’t even bring any of this strange dish to share when he came over. Kids these days…
I’ll raise you one better: I don’t know what I’m saying when I use them. I’m sure some have meanings, but I just pick whatever looks funny. I’ve probably caused some confusion before.
🫠
That’s why I draw them the other way round (-:
I just use a space : )
…on PC.
What about
(•_ )•
In my head it translates to an upside down face which is more like a signal of slight discomfort
=)
now with music
:)
I still use the full version
:-)Ah, the boomer smile
rhinologist approved smiley.
Keep it alive
Emojis and emoticons convey different emotions.
(-_- )
Long live emoticons, death to emoji heretics!
:(
