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Falling back to emoticons is always an option ;-)

Back when I was stil single some people unmatched me on dating apps for using them. Great way to filter out people not worth your time, really

You could do that, or you could set your age minimum to 30 or so.

I'm sure it would have been worse with people in their tweens, but it's not exclusive to them weirdly enough.

Another good one is being completely honest about your height (mostly just filters out American expats but still).

Anyway, the only reason I used emoticons was because I use this keyboard:

... but it apparently had some side-effects.

The inability to represent text in the vast majority of the world’s languages is a far bigger issue than the lack of emoji.