You probably haven't regularly used smileys since your middle school days, when modems screeched and President Clinton rained ordnance against Bosnian war criminals. You've grown up since then, but the ;) has remained inert, a relic of type. In our new modern age, is it ever okay to drop a smiley? Read More >>
Featured comment by Someone Else:
"Agreed, Mr Biddle is just being contentious for the sake of it. Admittedly I'm not sure I fit into the Sane adult category but I use smilies every day..." More »
Emoticons are ingratiated into modern language. Tweens communicate in nothing but nonsensical strings of emojis, and artists use them to create entire tales. But even with widespread use, emoticons' emotions have remained relatively 1-dimensional since their inception. Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"But I don't know what most of the current emoticons mean! How am I supposed to tell maternal love apart from "I've just seen the size of your penis an..." More »
Oh noes. Facebook has activated emoticons in the comments. That means that now your Facebook page will get full of all kinds of smileys. And, for some reason, sharks. Read More >>
Featured comment by sallyde84:
"I came across some pages where the comments were looking a bit different today. Took a second for me to realize that the Smileys aka Emoticons we use ..." More »
I bet when you're texting with friends you like to drop a :-) or maybe a ;-). If you're really up on your game, it's possible you toss in a (^_^). And because RIM and Samsung decided to include a quick-access key for these wonderful digital creations on their smartphones, some soulless patent trolls got all >:-O about it, and are taking the companies to court. Read More >>
Featured comment by tw@panda:
"Looking at those emoticons, I can't think of a single reason why I'd need to use a smiling poo emote. Oh, hang on... patent trolls. That explains why ..." More »
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