EMOTICON


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EMOTICONEmotion Icon (smileys)
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The emoticons feature Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in often hilarious situations.
Share Your "Prezidential" Opinion with New Donald and Hillary Emoticons from emotikidz[R]
This is credited to be the first recorded instance of an emoticon being used in communication.
Emoting Out Loud: The Origin of Emojis
It can make a terse text sound friendly but there's a time and a place for emoticons, and this is rarely at work.
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Many complained that they could not see the new emoticons, while some were unhappy that Facebook did not launch a "dislike" button.
OMG, Facebook launches 'Reactions' worldwide (Video)
Kurita wanted to find a simpler solution for this new model of mobile phones than complex and ornate kaomoji (Blagdon 2013), the Eastern emoticons, also composed by punctuation or other signs, such as Kurita designed small pictures, which had the advantage of being counted as a single character by the system: unlike textual emoticons and kaomoji, which are created by users typing a sequence of characters, emoji are pre-set images (Nishimura 2015).
Explorando el efecto de lap untuacion de los chats de Whatsapp en Espanol
Chat apps such as Line, WeChat, WhatsApp, Nimbuzz and Hike Messenger have stolen a march when it comes to emoticons and stickers.
Who needs words?
Now the excitement of every match can be shared through 25 fun emoticons.
United States : AT&T Mobile Introduces First Mexican National Team Emoticons Mobile App
So yes, emoticons have become common place across the messaging board.
The hidden cost of the diddy little smiley face
Likewise, UrbanDictionary compiler Aaron Peckman categorized the emoticon as "the antithesis of intelligent writing.
Are emoticons a woman thing?
The frowny treatment differs from the smiley treatment only because the emoticon subjects can send is of the form :( instead.
Immaterial rewards and sanctions in a voluntary contribution experiment
If you type :) or another recognized emoticon in many word processors, email programs, instant messaging programs, Web forums, and online games, the software will automatically convert it into a graphical representation.
Punctuation on the Internet is fanciful and practical
For simplicity's sake, I call these symbols critical emoticons.
Critical emoticons
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