[trenchpilgrim]

"some young people?" I hardly know anyone who _doesn't_, regardless of education level or age.

[devilbunny]

Well, I don’t, but unfortunately for me I am in, as you say, a small and dwindling minority.

I don’t find them useful, really, but the bigger problem lately has been complex emoji (so, not just a thumbs-up) in a size that is fine for reading the Latin or Cyrillic alphabets but useless for trying to pack a lot of info into a very pixel-limited block. If you think this sounds nuts, wait until you’re about 45 and presbyopia kicks in. It is rapid and merciless.

[trenchpilgrim]

heh, my eyes have been terrible since I was a young child

[devilbunny]

I'm also very myopic, but that at least is easily correctable for me (no astigmatism, just pure spherical deformation). Presbyopia doesn't care.