To ask why we don't use emojis here?

[norfolkbroadd]

You hardly ever see them and yet other such forums are stuffed with them.

I'm not for or against them by the way, I'm just wondering how the natural evolution of the written word has seemingly stalled on MN.

I sometimes find that the emoji screen glitches and freezes when I click on one, so now I dont bother and leave it to the gods to let people work out if im being serious or not.

MNHQ deleted my post saying that. Apparently it breaks talk guidelines yet MN is the place where I discovered the saying in the first place😂

😡

And apparently a single middle finger is banned.
It's tricky to know how to communicate with those who only understand cartoons.
Not fair on the poor things really. I assume MN is trying to force them to become litererate.

Oh the sarcasm

litererate
To become what now? Hoist by your own petard while trying to be a smart arse.

Muphry rides.
Love it when he does that. And he always does.
How embarrassing for you @LaMarschallin

I too .."think they can often convey a response more succinctly than a sentence ....... @norfolkbroadd

Agreed, but :) :( and :o all used to auto-convert - :o would give rather than - and I miss that, I used to like using those rather than having to find the square brackets on my phone which is a pain in the arse.

Strange take but okay. I’ll tell my 71 year old grandma that she’s illiterate because she uses emojis….

I'm really sorry, vrbg

It's extremely unusual for me to have a post deleted so I was obviously quite obnoxious. It certainly brought me up short and made me think.
The reason I was so touchy is that I'd received some very bad news that morning and was trying to lose myself online. However, that's a reason but is absolutely not an excuse.
So, again, my apologies and according to preference