Emoticons

[EtienneSM]

Always wanted to hear peoples' opinions on emoticons and see how often all of you use them in your daily lives, or if you even use at all, why you like/dislike them, etc.

inb4 emoticons

[korny]

Re: Emoticons

I hate emoticons they make me so mad

[shenjoku]

Re: Emoticons

I use them allllllll the damn time. Makes it a lot clearer what your intent is when sending a message to someone imo, which is especially important since it's impossible to tell sometimes. At least that's how I see it

[GuidoHunter]

Re: Emoticons

Generally don't care for them, but sometimes they're damn near necessary to make sure the other side of the conversation doesn't take something the wrong way.

I use:
=)
=(
=\

And very rarely:
<_<
>_>

--Guido

[Crazyjayde]

Re: Emoticons

I don't understand the sudden "Emoji" trend. I don't even think it signifies the same thing in translation.

Although most of the time I use ASCII emoticons and Kaomoji because you can actually be creative with them (they're the shit tho).
And it's a great way to make a difference between tones and nuances:

e.g.

I hate you =_=

I hate you D:<

[GammaBlaster]

Re: Emoticons

everytime I use (happy) I get kicked out

[Coolboyrulez0]

Re: Emoticons

(heidy) and Kappa are life necessities

[awein999]

Re: Emoticons

love them (kreygasm)

[shenjoku]

Re: Emoticons

I don't understand the sudden "Emoji" trend.

What's "Emoji"? Japanese/Korean/insert-other-asian-country-here emotes?

[SCWolf]

Re: Emoticons

I'm a believer in facebook stickers

[benguino]

Re: Emoticons

Emotes (mm)

[Netjet!]

Re: Emoticons

._.

and

:<

are my most used ones. I like to use them to quickly display how i'm feeling \o/

[ffr212]

Re: Emoticons

. ___________________________ .

[Crazyjayde]

Re: Emoticons

What's "Emoji"? Japanese/Korean/insert-other-asian-country-here emotes?

Difference between Kaomoji and Emoji
Kaomoji Examples


What I mean by the Emoji trend:

Although originally only available in Japan, some emoji character sets have been incorporated into Unicode, allowing them to be used elsewhere as well. As a result, some phones such as Windows Phone 7 line and the iPhone allow access to the symbols without requiring a Japanese carrier. Emoji have also started appearing in emailing services such as Gmail (accessed via Google Labs) in April 2009[1] and websites such as Flipnote Hatena. Several SMS applications for Android operating system phones[2] also provide plugins that allow the use of emoji. Apple's Mac OS X operating system supports emoji as of version 10.7 Lion with the Apple Color Emoji typeface.[3]

[Crazyjayde]

Re: Emoticons

Obligatory, super important double post

You know, I always thought this:

\o/

was some kind of face:

/ ‾ \
^ ^
\ o /

(cannot unsee)