Nik wrote:
I know this is a divisive practice anyway, but:
Typing emojis on a phone - very easy
Typing emojis in the various desktop messaging apps - varying degrees of faff.
Remembering which of the aforementioned apps will automatically convert emoticons into emoji - near impossible, in my experience.
In the web version of whatsapp, it's a little annoying that it'll convert :-) but not
(and this forum does it the other way around it seems)