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[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 68 points 11 months ago (16 children)

For me emoticons were something that started when all of the boomers came to Facebook. Floods and floods of useless emojis left and right. So now I feel weird using them, like I'm cheapening the platform while also acting like the people that ruined Facebook for me

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 57 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are emojis considered emoticons? Call me old but I think this is an emoticon ;-) and this is an emoji ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] ambiance@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

Agreed! Although the little image things on message boards like phpBB, ProBoards and Invision were also emoticons, even though they were basically early onset emojis

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