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I still use ':)' and ':P' occasionally when I've written something that might mean different things depending on the tone you read it in. "Oh, fuck you :P" is in much less danger of being misinterpreted with the emoticon. Most people I say that kind of thing to now will usually know what I mean without them, so I very rarely have a need for them. As for the graphical emoji, the only use I've ever found for them has been having my bash prompt emit a 💩 if the last command returned a nonzero exit status, and 👻 if the working directory doesn't exist.