Comments on: Emoticons

By: Gordon Levine

Gordon Levine — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:53:56 +0000

Happy to help, dave. ;)

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:48:44 +0000

Interesting. I’ve always hated emoticons, but now I hate them just a little bit less.

By: Genghis Philip

Genghis Philip — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:56:00 +0000

Thanks Mike! We don’t update daily, but we try to keep it pretty regular.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:08:22 +0000

i’m extremely impressed with this blog.

as long as you guys keep up, i will probably read it everyday!

By: Gordon Levine

Gordon Levine — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:17:28 +0000

Not using emoticons forces users to write more, at least. You hit the nail on the head: “given enough space,” you can communicate emotion better with words than you could with an emoticon. Not everybody’s that good, though, and anything to speed up and streamline text-messaging — otherwise called instant messaging — is a good thing.

In conclusion: there ain’t nobody who needs more shitty LJ poetry. If emoticons will get us out of reading it, more power to them.

By: Baity

Baity — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:50:30 +0000

Agreed on all counts.

Some have argued that not using emoticons forces users write with more depth. I don’t think I have to argue to you of all people that given enough space and enough skill, some fantastic images can be painted with words. The simple fact of the matter is that generally speaking both of these commodities are in short supply on the internet.

There would be a lot more shitty lj poetry style writing on the internet without emoticons.