Emoticon

needs to be clarified, before we go down the emoji rabbit hole, is that emojis are not emoticons. These two terms are often interchangeably used, but they are in fact quite different! Emoticons VS Emojis The distinction between emoticons and emojis is actually fairly simple to

punctuations. It was born on September 12, 1982 by Scott Fahlman who was later known as the “Father of Emoticons”. Scott Fahlman is a research professor who teaches computer science at Carnegie Mellon. It was said to be just a simple way of displaying a humorous post on the blackboard. Now, its evolution resulted to “Emojis”, which originated from Japan and has the same purpose thereof emoticons. However, the difference is that Emojis are far more diverse due to the number of choices you could choose

“Emojis are Unicode graphic symbols, used as a shorthand to express concepts and ideas”(Kralj). Emoticons are basically little pictures that are sent through different types of messaging systems to express emotion after or before the sender types what he/she is saying. On the other hand, hieroglyphics were drawings that were strictly one type of communication. “The ancient Egyptians expressed their ideas in writing by means of a large number of picture signs which are commonly called hieroglyphics”(Budge1)

The clear indication of GERTY as a human is the emoticon- the different emoji that show GERTY’s different emotions. For example, when Sam #1 forces GERTY to tell him the truth about whether he is a clone or not, the emoticons changes from a smiley to a frowny emoji. Similarly, when Sam explains his separation from Tess and announces Tess’s death to GERTY, his face expression changed to

On Facebook emoticons and status update are used to digitize emotions, which they can sell it to the advertisers. Silverman suggests that sometimes these words can be used wrongly by the algorithms. He says that if he tweets LeBron James’s slam dunk was “sick”, which

friends, people just call, text or instant message them. It may seem simpler, but people ultimately end up seeing friends face to face a lot less. Ten texts can’t even begin to equal an hour spent chatting with a friend over lunch. A smiley-face emoticon is cute, but it could never replace the ear-splitting grin and smiling eyes of a friend. People need to see each other. While technology has allowed us some means of social connection that would have never been possible before, and has allowed us

objects into detail and analysed facial expressions into words. So I decided it would be a great idea to use emoticons to express the character’s emotions. For example: “I ran into the woods, when I saw a strange thing in the far. I got close to it. I then saw it was one of those things. My face went like this (Insert shocked emoticon).”

E-mail Receiver and Sender Factors That influence Emoticon Perception and Use As mentioned previously the use of emoticons is not being used wide-spread (Rezabek & Cochenour, 1998). Although emoticons are not used widespread, there are some differences in use based on sender and receiver characteristics and settings of the communication. Factors such as gender, age, and sender-receiver relationship can all have an effect on how e-mail is used and how messages are perceived (Byron, 2008). In this

and interpersonal skills. From interpersonal skills I have to choose to evaluate the use of positive language and active engagement. For written communication skills I will be evaluating the effective advantages and disadvantages of using smileys/emoticons and grammar & spelling. Furthermore, I am going to discussing where these skills are used effectively in an appropriate manner. Finally I will conduct a final conclusion on what I have learnt about the effectiveness of using these skills appropriately

people to have emotion in written communication. An article published by Los Angeles Times states, “But emojis quickly surpassed emoticon use for two key reasons: There’s a lot more people can communicate with emojis. “I can make an emoji that’s a whale or a penguin,” said Internet language expert Gretchen McCulloch.”I don’t even know how I would do that with emoticons”. McCulloch is saying that he didn’t know how emotion would be like without emojis. And how everyone uses them in everyday life.