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

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  • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    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.