this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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I feel like emoticons are in some ways cheating at using words and thus it shows a lack of effort put into your communication. I use them mostly in quicker format messaging like Discord. I don't blame anyone for using a 🤷 or such but I'd like to try to be more eloquent.
What if you tried to express your emotional attitude to the person you are talking to? Or try to describe how you feel when you have had a good day.
I don't always do it well in text messages and then I use emoticons to reflect emotion.
Emoji might be the right choice there. Sometimes I'll just send back 🤷 or a gif in text messages or quicker formats but for something like Lemmy or Mastodon, I think a more effortful reply is desired since the point of those services is the conversation.