The importance of .... emoticons?!

Random observation alert!! Consider the use of emoticons in our society...

Those little faces we send to lighten the mood of a text, convey ultimate sadness or anger ... those semi colons with the bracket ( ;) ) that signifies a flirty tone to the message or the colon and the p ( :P) that puts across a joking nature to the message. It has become  ingrained in our minds that these are the persons reactions, and the absence of them would really disturb us! How strange!


Think about when you are sending a text, I'm sure that you have thought to yourself "I'll put a tongue face in so he knows I'm joking" or "I'll use a smiley face here to lighten the mood". 
Now consider when it is the other way round, and you get a text/tweet/facebook message that has no smiley face ... You would instinctively ask the person "What's wrong". Or say someone actually used correct punctuation and put a full stop at the end of their message, we would automatically assume that the person is peeved at us "I'm fine." for example. 
These are things we all do instinctively, but actually, when sitting back and considering what we are doing - it all seems very strange and abstract! ... but again I would like to emphasize that this is the Human of Being ... we are a weird, wonderful yet terribly complex race and I think we really don't even know it!
Just a random thought, but something that now you think about, you may become as baffled by it as I! 

Anyway, on a slightly less analytic note, this is a brilliant video about texting called "Textually active", and although it doesn't completely relate to this post, I thought I would share it as you can probably relate it to yourself" Its by a guy called Adande Swoozie and he is got some amazing and hilarious videos on his youtube channel!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6s3d2wdXVg&feature=g-wl
And you can follow him on twitter, guaranteed to light up your twitter newsfeed!

@sWooZ1e

Love 

Vicky ;) x