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

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's understandable. Back in the old old days, these 😱 were often called emoticons. The reason was that the chat software that people used to automatically replaced ;-) by 😉. The menu was the same and the name of this menu was emoticon.

One of the most famous example of this is MSN Messenger.

People keep the habit to call them emoticons.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In the old old days, emojis didn’t exist yet, until NTT DoCoMo created them for mobile phones. Emoticons predate them.