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[Neonivek]

I dislike emoticons in general. If you cannot convey your emotions through text, you are just not doing it right.  I don't think I got a single post with an emoticon here.

So your really pissed right?

[penguinofhonor]

Right? It's not like text is bad at conveying emotion or tone.

[Adragis]

I wish that people would die.



it might have been sarcasm

[SOLDIER First]

I dislike emoticons in general. If you cannot convey your emotions through text, you are just not doing it right.  I don't think I got a single post with an emoticon here.

_{you keep yelling at clouds. why}
I guess the best way to explain it is usually you can describe emotions through text, but emojis or whatever you want to call them help. They are to typing "I'm having a good day" what smiling is to saying that out loud.
But, you know. In picture form.

...

_{STOP YELLIN AT CLOUDS}

[Neonivek]

Emojis allow you to maintain natural dialog.

totally wanna kill you right now 
Vs.
Your cheesy remark would make me wanna kill you if I didn't love ya so much

[penguinofhonor]

There's also the fact that writing wasn't restricted to text-only until we invented keyboards and typewriters. I see no reason why we should force it to stay this way. How many times have you seen a nice handwritten note with a smiley face drawn on it near the end? Sometimes people just want to put a little picture in with what they're saying.

[SOLDIER First]

Emojis allow you to maintain natural dialog.

totally wanna kill you right now 
Vs.
Your cheesy remark would make me wanna kill you if I didn't love ya so much

[biting sarcastic remark]
vs.
[biting sarcastic remark] [no indication it's a joke]

[Adragis]

Emojis allow you to maintain natural dialog.

totally wanna kill you right now 
Vs.
Your cheesy remark would make me wanna kill you if I didn't love ya so much

[biting sarcastic remark]
vs.
[biting sarcastic remark] [no indication it's a joke]

you're such an idiot







^example

[Teneb]

STOP YELLIN AT CLOUDS

what does this mean? I honestly do not know.

I suppose I should mention that I have nothing against them emogees. I just feel that if I can't convey emotion trough text alone, I could've done better.

[GiglameshDespair]

STOP YELLIN AT CLOUDS

what does this mean? I honestly do not know.

I suppose I should mention that I have nothing against them emogees. I just feel that if I can't convey emotion trough text alone, I could've done better.

[Teneb]

Damn clouds, pissing all over the place.

[Rolan7]

That's an abbreviation of emoticon.

Why do I know so much about this?

What no, people using it that way are wrong.  An emote is like *shakes head* or *shouts at cloud*.  Often by using /emote or /me.

And the impression I get is that emoji are pictures whereas emoticons have classically been text-only (though many services will automatically ""upgrade"" one's emoticons to emoji, which is one reason my smiles are backward)
(:
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They're kinda fun in Skype because there's so dang many and the animations are cute.

[Flying Dice]

The difference: emoticon = ASCII, predominantly faces, emoji = graphical, predominantly symbols and images of various sorts.

More specifically, emoticons are older, and typically portray a whole face (but nothing else) with few exceptions. There are both Western and Eastern origin emoticons. Western ones typically take the sideways-on colon-eyed form like :), while Eastern ones typically take the right-side-up parentheses-bracketed form like (・_・;). There are also some non-facial emoticons, such as <3 and ☆彡; this also includes things like the tableflip (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ . In Western usage, formations with noses :-) are markedly of an older generation of users than those without.

Emojis first emerged in 1999, much more recently, in Japan. Rather than being symbol-drawn ASCII images, they are pre-made graphics. Since the late '00s, emojis have been standardized by incorporation into Unicode. Somewhat confusingly, there are emojis of emoticons, such as this: , though they can also be virtually anything, such as tree, suns, warning signs, &c. Today, emojis are typically downloaded by users through their device manufacturers or third-party programs.

I'm not certain about this, but I believe that it would be accurate to say that BBCode smilies are emojis, while the ASCII characters they're parsed from are emoticons. So, :) = emoticon,  = emoji. But the tl;dr is that emoticons = ASCII-drawn symbols (mostly faces, sometimes with hands in Eastern ones), emoji = graphically rendered symbols.

[Descan]

also, people use the word emoji more than emoticon or emote because emoji flows smoother to say than emoticon or emote. you don't have the hillock hard sound of the T and C in emoji

[Flying Dice]

Eh? I use emoticon pretty much exclusively because it flows well and doesn't sound like a mouthful of mush with those sharp consonants.