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

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  • mriormro
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    10 months ago
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    Does the distinction truly matter?

    • SorteKanin
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      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.