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 ? 😭

  • Solivine@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months 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. 😇

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      8 months 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 🙃

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        8 months ago

        Tangentially related, but I du recall à study indicating emoji users get laid more often.

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          8 months ago

          du recall à

          is giving big “my autocorrect is set to French” vibes

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            8 months ago

            It’s set to French and English which doesn’t pair well with little to no proofreading.