Dawiss

Aug 24 2006, 04:25 PM

Ok I have mentioned only few people who uses smilies ( ).. My question is why you use smilies and why you use/don't use them?

 

 

 

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Mjay06

Aug 24 2006, 04:39 PM

I do on occasions, but I certainly dont use them on everything I type. Some people really can go overboard with them. For instance on msn, when someone just posts or something I immediately shut the window - how are you supposed to reply to that?

Txt speak is a big pet hate of mine. It was 'invented' to make text messages on phones easier to write, & save character space. There is no reason why someone with a full qwerty keyboard has to use it. One of the Cambridge unis did a study on it a couple of years ago, & found using txt speak on proper keyboards not only takes longer to type, but on average 3 times longer to read. I've even encountered people that actually say 'lol', I mean in conversations in real life. Thats just plain idiotic.

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Dawiss

Aug 24 2006, 05:07 PM

In my language there are very big such things like "vmr - vienmēr (always)" "tgd - tagad (now)" and then sometimes other people dont understand anything because each second word is like thous lol ..

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rvalkass

Aug 24 2006, 05:39 PM

I don't use loads of smilies, unlike my sister, who has downloaded thousands for IM programs and uses them at every available opportunity. In a serious conversation I don't really see why you need them, but sometimes when what I'm saying is a joke or a bit weird then I might use one smilie: Other than that I don't really use them. I have nothing against them unless they are used excessively, or (as my sister has in MSN) are set to automatically replace characters, turning messages into those jumbled letters required for forum registrations!

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BuffaloHELP

Aug 24 2006, 06:40 PM

I have to use them once in a while ever since a member told me my words (either over the Pm or post) seemed tough and stiff. Although I do not mean this to happen or appear that way, I guess the way I write my sentence looks "strict."

He and I argued over my syntax. The words are only meaningful if you put your emotion into it, I said. But if the other person is not in a good mood any words given to that person may translate into "angry words/meanings."

So once in a while I throw in smilies and winks not just for me, but to convey my true intension of my words--which is to guide and help; not to rule over.

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Mjay06

Aug 24 2006, 07:02 PM

QUOTE(BuffaloHELP @ Aug 24 2006, 07:40 PM)

I have to use them once in a while ever since a member told me my words (either over the Pm or post) seemed tough and stiff. Although I do not mean this to happen or appear that way, I guess the way I write my sentence looks "strict."

He and I argued over my syntax. The words are only meaningful if you put your emotion into it, I said. But if the other person is not in a good mood any words given to that person may translate into "angry words/meanings."

So once in a while I throw in smilies and winks not just for me, but to convey my true intension of my words--which is to guide and help; not to rule over.

I apologise, I was a grumpy git that night

 

 

 

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chrisnield

Jun 21 2007, 08:30 PM

I use them sometimes, but not going too overboard. I think if you use them too often in the same post, especially on a forum like this it can just look silly and childish when you are trying to be mature. Though when you use them in the right place they work just like they should, to display emotions. Like if you were trying to have a joke with another member and you didn't use a smiley then they might not see it as a joke then you end in a flame war but using the correct smiley means they will have a better chance of understanding that you were only joking and don't hate them really

So yeh, use them in the right place and they are effective and pretty useful at times.

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sheepdog

Jun 21 2007, 03:20 AM

I like smilies!
They can be quite helpful in many instances. When you converse with someone with text only, and the person cannot hear the "tone" of your voice, it happens often that statements can be taken the wrong way. Think of a simple statement like, "What are you talking about?" Said in a hateful tone, one would understand that the person saying it is implying that you are an idiot and haven't a clue what you are talking about. Or said in a questioning tone, you can assume that someone may of just not understood something or missed a bit of converstation. Quite a bit of difference there.

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Corcyn

Jun 19 2007, 11:13 PM

QUOTE(Reygekan @ Jun 19 2007, 03:02 PM)

I don't use the emote smilies, I use text smilies though.

Yar, most of the time I use text smilies. Text smilies don't have any noticable effect on load time or CPU usage, haven't had their reputations ruined because of spammers, can express just as much, if not more emotion then image smileys, and can be slipped into posts more often without getting annoying.

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possible123

Jun 19 2007, 10:33 PM

I don't use smilies in forum posts or twitter posts. I mostly use them in IRC and IM. Smilies are useful for sarcasm and jokes, as mentioned before.
I've met people that make it a habit to punctuate every sentence with a smilie.

That kinda looks like this.

QUOTE

Person that uses smilies: I like smilies.
Person that uses smilies: Smilies are essential to speaking on the Internet.
Person that uses smilies: There are so many of them!
Person that uses smilies: Downloading smilies for apps is dangerous.
Person that uses smilies: They can contain viruses.
Person that hates smilies: Be quiet already.

and so on like that. This can annoy some people. I am sort of neutral with smilies, as long as they are not overused.
I sometimes use them in sigs of forums that I visit though.

The use of smilies really depends on the person and what they are talking about. A technical tutorial might not have a whole lot of smilies,
but a list of one-liners probably would be riddled with them.

If a person that likes to be funny is writing the technical tutorial, there might be more smilies than a person that really
just wants to write the tutorial and code.

People shouldn't use a whole lot of different types of smilies. Even though some people can come up with thousands of smilies,
only about twenty should be used.

That's all just my opinion, of course.

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Reygekan

Jun 19 2007, 10:02 PM

I don't use the emote smilies, I use text smilies though.

^^, <.<, >.<. xD

They seem a lot more fun to me. I personally can't stand the picture smilies, I'm not sure why. It's probably a secondary characterestic or a subconscious thing, n00bs generally tend to abuse those smilies so some part of my mentality tends to dislike them. (A n00b and a newb are different, just to clarify)

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