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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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 ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] sleisl 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Emoji give us an extra avenue of encoding emotion into our text, something that is usually difficult. So I think everyone should be using them ๐Ÿค“

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I thought I understood your comment until I got to the emoji. I'm not sure if they work terribly well

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