Emoticons!

"A picture is worth a thousand words"


Humans to humans, animals to animals, humans to animals, plants to plants, non living things to living things - all Communicate. Communication is the thing which drives the universe.


To communicate you require language but it can't be effective without the person using it. The deficiency of prosody and emotion makes a language lose a lot and hence it can make it one of the poorest form of communication. Formal and informal communication depends on the settings in which you are communicating.


Emoticons/smileys are considered to be a part of informal communication. For me, they are the one of the best way to bring additional meaning to the emails/messages/letters. Sometimes, they are more than a substitute for a normal dialogue. "I am smiling" can be simply replaced by a colon and a parenthesis. Ha! that short! Blessing in disguise for a lazy ass like me :)


No matter how easy one may find the use of emoticons, they should not be over-used in any message! Just imagine a message full of smileys..what do you make out of that? Insane sender? There are chances that the combo. means something logical e.g :) <3 :-* :">  (smile..love ya..kiss and blush) but then just think of those devices on which  smileys aren't appearing as pics instead they appear as symbols!  Think! :-?

Comments

  1. thinkstersakiTuesday, August 14, 2012 3:54:00 AM

    this coming from a guy who laughs at my love for smileys!!! ha!!! hypocrite! :P :P

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  2. MaddieeeTuesday, August 14, 2012 12:59:00 PM

    :D :D who said I laugh at the love for your smileys..I laugh at the usage of smileys ;P

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