Slow@lemmy.today to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoWhy do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons?message-squaremessage-square288fedilinkarrow-up1236arrow-down132file-text
arrow-up1204arrow-down1message-squareWhy do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons?Slow@lemmy.today to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square288fedilinkfile-text
Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that? ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
minus-squareSorteKanin@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up43arrow-down1·11 months agoITT: People conflating emojis and emoticons.
minus-squarepistachio@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoIn msn messenger emoticons were what emojis are today. So to me emoticons and emojis are the same… i dont what to call the things op refers to… maybe ASCII emoticons? Edit: turns out im wrong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon Edit: sort of wrong… emojis are also officially called emoticons
minus-squareOok the Librarian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoYeah, I’m confused. I do use emoticons and I rarely use emojis. What half of that is relevant here?
minus-squaremriormro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoDoes the distinction truly matter?
minus-squareSorteKanin@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoIn some ways no, but communication is complicated. Emoticons and emojis feel different when used I feel like. :) and 🙂 is not the same. They’re also used by different generations of people I think. So in that way it is meaningful to talk about them as separate concepts.
ITT: People conflating emojis and emoticons.
In msn messenger emoticons were what emojis are today. So to me emoticons and emojis are the same… i dont what to call the things op refers to… maybe ASCII emoticons?
Edit: turns out im wrong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
Edit: sort of wrong… emojis are also officially called emoticons
Yeah, I’m confused. I do use emoticons and I rarely use emojis. What half of that is relevant here?
Does the distinction truly matter?
In some ways no, but communication is complicated. Emoticons and emojis feel different when used I feel like. :) and 🙂 is not the same.
They’re also used by different generations of people I think. So in that way it is meaningful to talk about them as separate concepts.