Wednesday 27 December 2006

The (non)sense of emoticons

Why are emoticons important?
That's a fact: communication either textual or verbal is not only to share information. In many cases emotional aspects are transported too. It is important to distinguish formal information and personal news.
  • Informing a hotel about the flight connection (date of fligth, company and fligt number) you will use will not legitimate any emoticon.
  • Writing your boy or girl friend you will pack a lot of emotions into your message - in that case the use of emoticons may be usefull

In some forums we se an inflation of emoticons "decorating" single messages. I think that a good eye leads you to a sensfull middle course.

2 comments:

Net pirate said...

I hate this emoticons! Taking bandwidth for nothing!

Anonymous said...

Smileys are useful for short messages and notes. If you need to tell something to someone as fast as possible, it is the best advice to simply draw a smiley on a piece of paper.