Too many people have peed in the pool

Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by KaiserPro on Monday February 15, 2016 @11:55AM (#11104351)

emoticons were annoying on MSN messenger. I'd hope that people will grow out of it, like they did back then.

but perhaps they are here to stay.

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by cazum on Monday February 15, 2016 @12:05PM (#11104415)

I don't think MSN users grew out of emoticons, they just stopped using MSN. Facebook chat, Skype and SMS picked up where MSN left off, and all three of those have a strong emoticon game.

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by KaiserPro on Monday February 15, 2016 @03:37PM (#11105760)

interesting, first it appears people really love emojis here, my original post lost me some karma...

second there was a massive gap in my friend group between MSN emoticons dieing out and emojis seeping in.

Perhaps my experiences are abnormal....

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by freehunter on Monday February 15, 2016 @12:06PM (#11104426)

I don't think they'll ever go away, and that's because of the nature of short-form text communications. You need to express emotion, something language is bad at doing in short-form. Longer expressions can have great flowery emotion, but "im gonna kill you" can mean a lot of different things depending on the emoticon or emoji that follows it. And that's really important.

Some people write long messages to convey emotion. Others use ambiguous phrases and follow it up with a quick expression of emotion to set the context.

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