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Probably because large parts of population unfortunately prefers communicating with emojis. Curious if this becomes a a logographic language in future like Chinease.

edit: I think you might be onto something. Some novels actually addressed that possible outcome ( super sad love story being one of them iirc ).

I chuckle at the downvoting that does not address the issue. One might argue that it is a generational issue. There is an argument to be made that picture is worth a thousand words, but some things require precision that goes beyond ::eggplant::,::tongue::

I think reactions are pretty cool. Much faster than having to reply, and it's a feature that makes it easier to have short discussions. I use it all the time on Teams, Messenger, Telegram. And fwiw, it would actually break my flow to make them harder to access.

And worst of all is when someone emojis your message, the flow to remove that notification is different. You cannot just select the chat and it clears it.