Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University is the homo who created the famous :-) text smiley human face upward that expresses a happy mood together with has ever been a purpose of our emails and chat messages.
Yahoo! of late conducted a survey related to the work of Emoticons in IM conversations. Some interesting picks [For sum reports available every bit PDF file, e-mail me for a copy]
· It’s a Girl Thing: 82% of respondents mean value that women are to a greater extent than probable to work emoticons than men.
· Happiness is close oftentimes using emoticon followed past times Flirting.
· Most people mean value that feelings of dear are easier to choose using emoticons than inwards somebody – 57% of respondents would rather tell a "crush" their truthful feelings using an emoticon. 10% of respondents would conk every bit far every bit proposing matrimony to their loved i via IM.
· The bulk of survey respondents tell they best limited themselves inwards IM using emoticons. Nearly two-thirds (61%) rely on emoticons to best limited their feelings, acre 17% rely on Internet slang (i.e. LOL, GR8) together with 13% rely on photograph sharing.
In related news, Yahoo is inviting everyone to submit pictures of their favorite human face upward expressions - it could last converted into a smiley together with conk a purpose of the Yahoo! Messenger. The challenger is running inwards the U.S., Bharat together with Vietnam until July 31, 2007. Enter here.
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