They're not equivalent

Man we're all fucking old people here aren't we.

:D will forever be better than its emoji counterpart

You inspired me to make this meme OP:

We use an older version of Outlook at work and it turns :) into 🙂 but not the emoji but the Wingdings smiley which is the letter J when you use a different font. I only found out after months when somebody asked me why I put so many J's in my mails.

I don't remember asking you a god damn thing Outlook 🤨

I work in a technical field. My work email changes "<3" to a heart emoji.

Pardon me, sir. I was not expressing my admiration, its just that your analyte concentration is less than the measuring range of my instrumentation.

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Emotions take more effort than emoji these days.

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That's why I draw them the other way round (-:

Another reason why I miss my full keyboard: I could tell autocorrect to bend over, snap it's spine and fuck itself with it's own spinal cord.

I'm old. I don't understand what people are trying to tell me half the time they use emojis.

I see this as an example of either how little some people making decisions in tech companies know about what people want or about how different the things I want are from the majority of people.

=)

:(

now with music

I still use the full version :-)

Emojis and emoticons convey different emotions.

I've always just done it backwards, even before emojis were a thing.

I guess I'm just alternative, like Weezer.

3(

Try turning this into an emoji, Apple. Oh wait, you can't, because I made it up. (Idea may be thought of by someone else before)

Long live emoticons, death to emoji heretics!

:(

It's not even that it's completely different - text emojis are more expressive. Less is more. And I'm not arguing that you can't use emoticons in more than one way to convey different emotions or intentions, but you just can't use :D and 😀 in the same way. Where you can use :D to be anything from snide, trolling, taking the piss, happy, excited etc you need a whole lot more emoticons to cover all that the :D can cover.

:)

My phones autocorrect suggests it but doesn't change it