Emoticons Rant

Gone were the days of sweet romance, when Jack would write Jill a love letter for every day she was away, and Jill receiving them weeks or maybe months later, sobbing in happiness with longing thoughts of him running through her mind.

Away with the static-full rotary telephone calls where Little Timmy would say "I love you mom" and his mom, who lived 10miles away, would hear it 9 seconds later and reply "I love you too son".

They were replaced by the modern cellphone. Capable of making and receiving calls from virtually anywhere around the globe, the modern cellphone made long distance relationships, well, not quite so very distant.

But what do these 3 era's have in common? It's simple. Words were used. In verbal or writing, whatever the language, words were used.

If I was sad, I would either say or write, "I am sad" or some close variation of it.

Nowadays however, such phrases as "I am sad" are replaced with......

THIS!!

Or....




THIS!

What the hell is that? Is that supposed to be your face? But it looks nothing like the way you look in person! So we are throwing our human uniqueness out the window and replacing it with a buncha round.... ball.... yellow... what do they call it.... Emoticons!?!? Such blasphemy!

Don't you hate it when you talk to your colleague on msn and she goes:

Colleague: I am so *sadface*, my *heart* is *brokenheart*, my bf cheated on me yesterday... *cryface**cryface**cryface**cryharderface*. He said he was sorry and he still *heart* me, and asked if I still *heart* him too. I don't know what to say... *cryface**cryface**cryface**cryharderface*.

Ah well... just a communications related rant, meh.