Smileys are getting overrated, big time

The original smiley :-) was supposed to be put into a sentence in a place where an emotion of irony or sarcasm or laughter was to be interpreted. If you look into your IM history and it can be anything, FB, ICQ, Skype, MNS, Jabber, you will see almost nothing more but smileys. What is that about? How can you determine any irony from a sentence when it has smiley faces on 3 different places. Do you think it was meant to be ironic or worth laughing 3 times in a row?

Women tend to use more smileys than men. There is no doubt there, however as much as this is true, also more women tend to overuse them. Afterwards instead of writing colorful and meaningful sentences interpreting feeling of a woman, only a stack of smiley faces is produces and no meaning can be read from it any more. Think about it. How many smileys you wrote in your last chat session.

Indeed I am not saying never ever again write a smiley face. Please do keep putting in smileys otherwise we would degenerate back into the 80s but use them wisely. Put a smiley face where you think the other part might be in doubt how did you really mean it. Put one in place of irony interpretation. Put a sad face if you feel sorry for someone. Do not ever overuse them, otherwise your smileys will loose any purpose and so will your sentences.

Some people have advanced to such level that they dont even think about writing smileys at all, they just seem to fall out of their sleeves as they write any sentence. Those people usually start with a smiley face, write their sentence put a few maybe between words and finish with two smileys after full stop.

:-) Hi dude, so did you see that ludicurus :-) game last night :-) :-)

If this is not enough, best smiley use comes from elderly people. They have just learn that there is such thing as a smiley and they use them 3x more than a professional smiley writer :-). Well that is quite hard to explain to them isnt it? They think they put 10 smileys after a sentence and the other part will be dazzled how creative they are. Prove me wrong on this one... Let elderly people be themselves do not interrupt them, while writing far too many smileys and focus on your amount of smileys in each sentence.

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