No Stupid Questions

I think it might just be the old creeping in. Kids like emojis, and they weren't around when we were kids, so it is new and strange so I don't like it, etc.

Made me go and check, but surprisingly lemmy doesn't have an emojipasta community

I would have thought that one would have made the jump

I like them used sparingly. There's art to using just the right emoji in the right spot that conveys a message in a way that is difficult to achieve with text.

Emojis make reading slower because you'll pay attention to both emojis and text , and try to understand it

I don't mind them when used appropriately, but remember that us old people may struggle to make out which emoji we're looking at when the text is small.

To my eyes it also looks out of place in professional writing, so I would find it hard to take you seriously if you use emojis in such a context.

TL;DR: in a casual context, go nuts, but avoid for important communication where clarity and professionalism matters.

Lemmy has a lot of grumpy old folks who fear change so it just comes with the territory.

I grew up with forums where emoticons were substituted with smiley images (on badly coded ones, "8)" turned into "😎" even when it was just a parenthetical ending with the number 8 or the eighth point in a bullet point list). I use emoji approximately when I would have used those smileys, it is a good thing they're now standardized, but other than that I find them unnecessary and distracting.

I dislike emojis in general.

You only speak one language in a sentence right? How often do you switch between languages in a single sentence?

Emoji are pictograms the same as east Asian languages are pictograms.

1. At the font sizes I tend to view text in, I can read text clearly but emoji just look like blobs. The details are so small that ALL of the faces look like yellow circles.

2. There are so many emoji, many of them with only slight differences between them, that they render each other meaningless.

3. So many of them are being used as something else and keeping up with their actual meaning is just not worth the time.

Their intentionally bland, unpleasant to look at, and it makes you look like you just got on to the internet for the first time in your life.

I do them anyways ignore the downvotes live your true self ⓋⒶ🐇

Because some people are afraid to have emotion

It definitely depends on the instance, but as a whole it’s probably a bit of carryover culture from the other place where emoji are not generally accepted.

I predate emojis by a bit, they never really caught on with me.

I thought lemmy got an emojipasta community when I saw your post 😂

I haven't specifically seen anyone go off the rails when it comes to emoji usage on Lemmy; I can only comment on my particular feelings about emoji: Like any tool, emoji can be used in ways which are confusing. However, the value of these little images conveying additional context to written text is useful. There is so much of the personal voice which is lost with written words, unadorned with body language, tone of voice, and facial expressions. Emoji are like a written solution to this issue (for those that don't pick up on context on words alone). I am fine with the usage of emoji.