I’m a heavy emoji user, texting is such a poor medium for communication, many times people get the wrong message, but with an emoji you’ll get an idea of the face I’m making, so less chance of misunderstanding

I noticed that every time I add an emoji to a comment it gets downvoted, so I tested my theory, wrote a comment without an emoji, got upvotes, went back and added an emoji, got downvotes…

On Reddit people use emojis a lot, on Lemmy I NEVER saw anyone use emojis, my account is new but still for the time I spent here, I never saw the use of emojis

So, is it just me, have you noticed this small detail ? and do you miss emojis the way I do ? 😭

  • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.ca
    231·
    2 years ago

    Semi-related, but does any one else feel creeped out by the basic smiley emoji? 🙂

    The cold dead eyes peer into my soul with judgement. That’s why I always use a different smiling emoji ☺️

    • RAM@discuss.tchncs.de
      141·
      2 years ago

      I hate when whatever platform I am on auto-replaces my ‘:)’ with ‘🙂’ - the basis smiley emoji is so unsettling 😅

      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        5·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, I wish sometimes that software would stop trying to be so god damn helpful. I find Emoji to be kind of loud where emoticons aren’t, and at the very least I know which one I wanted. JUST. STOP. FIXING IT. :p

    • Solivine@sopuli.xyz
      41·
      2 years ago

      Out of curiosity do you struggle with eye contact? Because the main difference I see is the eyes closing in the second one you used.

      On WhatsApp I hate the basic smiley because it just looks ugly, so I use the angelic one. 😇

      • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.ca
        41·
        2 years ago

        I wonder if there are any studies about the relationship between emoji use and mental health. Because you just read me to filth via my emoji preferences.

        I do also like the angel smiley, but I never really use it because I associate it very closely with this one ex 🙃