28 July 2005

Those animated BAST*RDS

I don't really know what to write about, seeing as my main plan just failed.

So I'll write about... emoticons.

Emoticons are those little smiley character face things that you see advertised ALL over the internet. And, to put it bluntly, I HATE them! Well, some anyway. Some of the faces are quite cool, and some even edge towards being funny! But the worst idea in the world of mini images... were ones to REPLACE letters.




This is a screenshot of a conversation I was having on a popular messenging system the other day. Now, imagine all of those little letters rotating, flashing and wobbling in front of your eyes. You can't read it when they're static let alone when they're all over the place! However, that isn't the worst of it. This is a boy I was talking to, a note the little hearts and pink letters... causes a slight wondering about his sexual orientation...

And, half of them are to replace whole words, meaning it is AGAIN more confusing than just the spinning, sparkling, flashing, blinking and downright annoying-ness. It's like trying to decipher an enigma code!

I realise this post was pathetic, but come back next Thursday for quite a good post, with a collaboration with writing extraordinaire, Giuseppe D'Amone! (I've been trying to get him to have a real blog, but I haven't tried hard enough yet.)

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