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 ? 😭
But live/real time text communication with relatively informal conversations is new.
Going back 100 years, if you were writing text to have a conversation you were likely sending a letter, this asynchronous communication method means that you were putting more time and effort into each message as it was a lot of effort to get the message to another person (even if that is just hand delivering it to your neighbor)
You also weren’t expecting immediate responses. The expectation is that a decent amount of time is going to pass before the next phase of the conversation.
Instant messaging is basically brand new as far as the history of written language goes. So with it comes new paradigms in discussion.
Emojis offer a great way to express emotions that succinctly convey a lot of information. Great for back and forth conversations.
Being able to react to a message with 👍 is awesome and really not much different from all of the other initialisms that have been developed on the Internet over the years.
Which is why I think emojis are fine. I just think traditional writing does not qualify as a poor medium.