Do you know the difference between an Emoticon and an Emoji?

A while back another board I use to frequent changed their set of emojis. My complaints went unheard, so I decided to use emoticons instead. :confused: Wait, I think it’s actually the very emoji set as on this board, haha!

Anyway, I wasn’t aware of that distinction either. So thanks for that @ralphm! :~)

Heh, yes, that happened here, too, when we switched platforms. Quite a few members still pine for the old vBulleting emojis. Indeed, some people still use them here. :smiley:

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Who? Where?

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I didn’t know the difference until a few weeks ago.

I’m still trying to find a smiley with a rotating head, The Exorcist style

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Just noticed I have my own smiley

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See - there were just so many good ones on vBulletin which are missing on Discourse.

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prefer emojis, a lot easier!

Thank you.Glad to learn this. Personally, I prefer emojis. They are more like a face and deliver expressions no less than emoticons. Maybe, because I’m childlike. Children always love picture stuff. :joy:

I still call them all Smiley.

Me too… And feel super confident to say it out loud here…:stuck_out_tongue:

I like emojis… wink (written word) would never look as good as the emoji itself.

Well, that’s new for me too. The more you live…

Cool! I thought they were just the same… Now I’m starting to learn something in this forum aside from the more on techie side. Thanks!

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Well…you learn something new every day! I honestly thought they were the same thing, and did wonder why we started calling them emojis instead of emoticons, I assumed it was just an evolution of the word or something…good to have it cleared up! So on that note, I would vote for emojis over emoticons :smiley:

Ponderism for today:
Can a SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) be considered an emoticon? Reason for asking is because it is made up of keyboard characters and can render either images or text?

https://textfac.es/

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Why prefer Emoticons over Emojis?
Sometimes it’s little confusing to actually type an emoticon.

I like the ASCII simplicity, personally. A lot of emoji present a pretty weird interpretation of various emotions, too, which puts me off.

Not sure, though I think of emoticons as limited to what you can do with typable or copy/pastable characters. I’d prefer it to stay simple!

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Depends how lazy I am, if it’s possible to put an emoji quickly, I’d choose that, but in forums and quick chats smilieys like these :slight_smile: :wink:

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