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by Synaesthesia 4358 days ago
I thought so too, until I started using them in my messages to my friends and girlfriend. Now I find them an integral part of my communications. 😄
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Oh the irony. Your emoji comes out as a blank square for me (Windows 7 - Opera 12)
Chrome does the blank square as well, but it works in Firefox and IE. (win7)
Works for me in FF on Linux.
Consider installing the Symbola font [1]. Where Unicode fallback works correctly, missing glyphs from the regular site font will be taken from Symbola. It's the most comprehensive freely available emoji font I could find (although it doesn't look anywhere as good as full color emojis and at average website font sizes can render a little too small to make out any detail).

[1] http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/

Looks good here, IE11 on Windows 8.1
Opera 12 on Debian GNU/Linux shows it fine