Blog 125: Emotional Over Emoticons

Hey, it's my 125th post! That's gotta mean something right? I dunno if I'm meant to do something special... although I now realise I've probably done about 25 posts in the last year which isn't very much if you think about it.

SO, emoticons, we all know what they are because you're on the internet right now and if you've been on the internet EVER you've no doubt been pestered by tiny little yellow faces mimicking expressions so that the robots can learn how to do our emotions back to us so we think they're human and then they suddenly reveal the little switchboard under their tummies and shred us up with their suddently metal razor hand.

But obviously, as they're learning, the robots haven't quite got it right yet. The facebook robots have probably perfected the :P face from the amount of times I've done it, let alone everyone else, but skype hasn't quite got the nack, and when you do :P on skype, which I do alot because of my facebook-learned habits, there's a little yellow man doing a very explicit tongue gesture at whoever you're talking to: possibly a girl you kinda have a crush on, or a guy mate who's very homophobic, or even you're own mother :/

Then there's the progression of the standard smileys. So you start with the best of the best :D a smiley grin. Next step down :), then :/ then :( then :'( and they're progressively getting sadder and sadder, which makes me feel :(. But they never go far enough, and this is my main complaint. Where do you go from :D or :'( ? the amount of times I've written :( followed by :'( and then realising I need to burst into tears is mad, and yet there's never any emoticon to satisfy this needs. However, on facebook you can get these faces: o:) angel, 3:) devil, <(") penguin (^^^) shark, :3 man with inexplicable cat expression and even a robot that I can't remember the code for. But seriously, when was the last time something was said to you on facebook chat that made you feel like a penguin, shark or catman? But if I wanna cry all over facebook, I can't! It's ridiculous.

Of course the only reason I wanna cry on facebook is because I'm clearly unstable. Crying on it's own is a sign of sadness, but crying via facebook emoticons is wrong. But the fact that I want to and I can't just makes me want to cry more, so yes it's screwed up but it'd get more screwed up if they don't fix it.

:'(