Do You Find It Hard To Post Without Emoticons?

I am addicted to a few

:hi:

:rofl:

:hug:

and I like a few others

:loveya:

:toast:

:think:

:dilemma:

I find it hard to post without them, in fact I almost feel like I posted a naked post.

I really hadn't ever thought about it until I noticed that when I posted without emoticons it felt strange

I guess on DU they are technically called "emotion icons"

I've never understood the check box on the thread starting post, or "OP" that says: Check if you DO NOT wish to use emotion icons in your message


Or in the search page where it says "search all Children's forums" :wtf:

Oh well

just things to keep my totally wrecked brain busy.

:P is another one I like :rofl:

:hi:

:hug:

:toast:

they're a crutch for the inarticul-wait, what are you doing? SHIT!
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:rofl: :P I pretty much can't post without emoticons. :( (See? I just can't do it!) ;)

I recognize your emoticon usage for what it is, a part of you. I imagine an expressive person who probably talks with her hands or draws pictures with her words when she talks. I may be way off, but that is my image of you :hi:

:hug:


:rofl:

:) :hug: :hi:

emoticon measurement of personality?

:rofl:

:hug:

:loveya:

I see no problem here :P


:rofl:

and well, you don't need emoticons, you get your point across without them :shrug:

;)

sometimes, I use them. Sometimes, I don't. Go figure.

And my favorite:

I do love that reaper one :headbang:

I like the two mugging for a pic at the top, with the classic "ears" on the one guy's head. I don't know why, it just cracks me up. :rofl:

probably secondary to HFCS or something

it is a :P smilie kind of icon used to denote an emotion like a smile :) or a frown :( or an angry person :grr: or a laughing person :rofl:

now if you could understand that and start using them occasionally this wouldn't be so hard :P

I tend to use :P most of the time as my all-purpose one anyway. And it just happens to have a little picture with it here on DU. :)

which is way awesomely cool yanno :thumbsup:

and we here or I love to see new and innovative emoticons :P

Usually some variant of o.o

The 'huh' one... o.O
The wide-eyed surprise one O.O
The knocked out cold one x.x
ect. :)

without emoticons. You don't know what tone or inflections people intended, which can determine what they really mean. Emoticons help clarify, so I use them as a normal part of online grammar. :)

That way you know I'm not being pedantic or snarky. I am just trying to communicate clearly. :P

I could say you rock :D

or you rock :grr:

and you would derive a different meaning from it :crazy:

but :yourock: is pretty clear and :loveya: and :hug: are pretty clear unless the message is totally incongruent with the emoticon

:P

:hug:

For that, you get the first slice of the double chocolate mousse cake.

:9

nom nom nom

:D

I've always overused them, since Yahoo chat in the 90's. I can't stop now, it's who I am :toast:

and I am what I am

Yahoo chat now is a joke

in the 90's it was prolly good

in the early 2000's it started breaking down

freeperland ruined it and everything else like it :grr:


:toast:


:hug:

but other than the few "automatic ones" like :) and ;) I tend to use my own from elsewhere

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She's got legs :P

:hi:

Centaurs - tribes.net

The site/domain seems to be based out of Houston, which is news to me!

She does have great legs, though. I liked that image bacause she did a wonderful job of making it mostly seamless and realistic :)

But I wouldn't say their appearances are rife. I love writing and place my focus on expressing myself as best as possible with words.

a person of few emoticons and many words... words paint pictures, emoticons a snapshot if that.

:think: but I still like them a lot :woohoo:

She can't help herself. It's tragic, really.

but I know the type

:eyes: just can't help themselves :rofl: from using emoticons in a post :spray: and really find them to be important in certain things :hug: and :grr: and :pals:

:shrug:

Get a little smiley going on and everything goes back to normal.

:spray: