I use text emoticons like I always have :D

Regular emoji is just easier. But I do have a keyboard shortcut for the ¯\(ツ)/¯ which is my main textface, if annoying to edit his arm back in

Personally, I’m OK with emoji as long as you don’t spam them (3+ times the same emoji is spamming imo)

1 emoji for a normal expression

2 emoji for a heavy expression

3 emoji is still acceptable but my personal limit of tolerance

3 emojis that complete a thought like:

🛩️💥🥂

None and I installed an emoji blocked on firefox.

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Old school smileys :-) because My Keyboard app doesn’t have a emoji board.

My usage is fairly restricted:

• old school :^) for non-sarcastic irony
• (¬¬) for eye rolling
• shorthand emojis (e.g. if talking about Stardew Valley, instead of “the four hearts event” I might type “the 4♥ event”)
• as a way to avoid a specific word for metalinguistic reasons (e.g. “⟨dog⟩ is the signifier, 🐶 is the signified”)

I read somewhere that proper emojis are more accessible for screen readers, so I’ve avoided using the old style smiley versions and textmojis ever since.

I like the classic ಠᴗಠ text faces

I generally don’t use emojis because I don’t think I understand the nuances of emoji well enough to throw them out there for strangers on the internet to interpret.

:) all day

So far I have used exactly one emoji here, and only once so far.

😉

I’m not a big emoji guy overall, but there are certain jokes and such that require inflection in your voice or certain body language to land properly. Obviously that’s not an option in a text basud conversation so emoji fills in that gap for me.

I don’t particularly mind people using emojis in other ways, though I do think using a lot of them gives off a weird vibe, but for me personally I mostly prefer to use my words, and using emojis only sparingly makes them feel like they have more impact to me when I do use them.

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