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by kjdal2001 3460 days ago
Tone and facial expression aren't conveyed at all in non-emojied text. Comparing emojis usage to spoken conversation doesn't make sense because they aren't used to augment or replace speech.
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I didn't compare the two. I was explaining that the absence of these things means emoji's don't do a good job of communicating emotion and empathy.