• FleetingTit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    5 months ago

    Emojis generally replace the period but come after a question mark or exclamation point.

    Can I borrow your pen? 😊

    I borrowed your pen 😅

    You little shit! 👿

  • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
    18·
    5 months ago

    After. It’s a visual commentary on the text you just wrote. It’s not part of that text.

    • hikaru755@feddit.deEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      So do you also expect everyone over 12 to always keep a pokerface in real life conversations, or is this rule confined to virtual spaces for some arbitrary reason?

        • hikaru755@feddit.deEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Well you’re also not going around holding written pieces of text to someone’s face to talk to them in real life, yet that’s how we’re communicating here, and you don’t seem to find that weird. It doesn’t need to be the same to be a helpful analogue. Sounds from your mouth -> written text, facial expressions and gestures -> emoji/emoticons. There’s actual research demonstrating that people actually do parse and react to emojis and emoticons in the same way they would to real facial expressions.

  • 42yeah@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    I just treat them like the floating pics in a word documentation. So ba👌sically anywhere.

  • mryessir@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    Before :). Otherwise I am getting angry ಠ_ಠ. Smilies add context to the current statement. So a smilie afterwards just catches the overall vibe. 😌🤓😌 And this may be rude to someone. 🙄

  • Katrisia@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    Before (unless intended otherwise). Imagine the case in which the paragraph continues…

    Roy fell when we were walking. 😂 It was kind of worrying.

    vs

    Roy fell when we were walking 😂. It was kind of worrying.

    In the first one, it seems that you are laughing about the fall being worrying. In the second, the laugh is about Roy, and then the next sentence reads in a more neutral tone, which was my intent.

    Maybe it doesn’t look as nice, but to me it makes more sense.