When You See This
What is your reaction to this when you see it on the internet:
:)
For the longest time I was against any type of emoticons (or whatever you want to call them, how about just smiles). I was annoyed when I would see smiley faces, fishes, what seemed to be someone raising their hands and anything else you could do with a keyboard to make a face. They just seemed like something a 12 year old girl would do. Here is the funny thing, lately I have been using the smiley face. :) The main use for me is signaling that what I am saying is said with a smile on my face. It is my form of sarcasm online. I do this because I am a sarcastic person, but one I cannot read how you are taking what I am saying and you cannot hear how I am saying it so things can really be taken out of context.
What is your reaction to Social Media Smiley Faces?
*kyle
I use them a lot, but I'm trying to cut down and let the words speak for themselves. If I think the sarcasm isn't obvious enough, I'll keep it.
“Speaking” cross-culturally online I've found them invaluable though, because even where language is supposedly common, cultural idiom often makes it not so.
I'm tempted to finish this comment with a smilie, but I won't.
Oh, ok then… :)
If you don't use the smiley face you're a big time loser.
:)
Hahaha
exactly, I think we are on the same track here Dave.
Unfortunately there really is no other way to communicate sarcasm then the smiley face.
Funny thing about it is that we can be sarcastic about using a smiley face to communicate sarcasm. Weird :)
You know who the king of the :) is?
Human3rror
He uses them all the time. And quite well I might add
Irony FTW!
Which even FTW can be taken out of contexted and used way to much. Crazy world we live in
I used to not like them but then a while back started using them, use them frequently now.
FTW, Fail and things like that I don't use, don't like them but maybe someday I will haha.
:)
A friend of mine always reads it backwards……….
i use this a LOT o_O
to me that means eyebrows raised, one eye is bigger than the other…im not buying what you're saying.use “that look” a lot in real life. my eyebrows are ALWAYS raised. i dont pluck them and i have “mommy dearest” arches. :)
Ya I refuse to say fail or pwn or pwn'd or whatever it is. Not my thing.
Okay that is good to know. I always just thought it was some decipher code or something like that.
I like the mommy dearest arches, that is funny
I don't mind seeing these. Does help convey a stronger message. But the only two I use are :) & :/ The later because that's the face I make IRL a lot.
I like using the simple smiles not all the people raising arms and whatever they come up with.
I don't use 'em much. If I I do, I usually use: =) , =/, or =T. I don't have any deep reasons for not using them or whatever. They are just aren't me.
whats =T ?
Ya what does that mean?
IRL????What does that mean?
IRL = “in real life”
Try to keep up. :)
I am so far behind I have just given up