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Because it uses pictures instead of words.

• stormking 8y ago
  That idea was dismissed several thousand years ago, and for good reason. Text is way more powerful and precise than pictures. And I'm not saying having both is a bad thing, but this focus on Emojis is just idiotic.
  • ovao 8y ago
    Text accompanied by images has been a staple of modern visual communication for the past several hundred years. Emojis just bring additional ways to express oneself in addition to plain text. They augment; they do not replace.
  • kridsdale1 8y ago
    Emotional human conversation is imprecise. Tactical use of that is a skill.
  • wsc981 8y ago
    When I chat with my Thai girlfriend, many miles away, we usually use the LINE app. We don't directly use emoji's, but we do use stickers [0] as part of our chat. And I feel stickers provide much the same use as emojis, the can more easily be used to convey emotions in a chat that would otherwise be harder to interpret correctly. --- [0]: https://store.line.me/stickershop/showcase/top/en https://store.line.me/stickershop/showcase/top/en
    • throwaway-hn123 8y ago
      That's one of the main reasons I use Telegram - stickers + emojis + text is far more superior to just text. I feel sorry for some of the emotionally crippled people upstream who are so dismissive of this.