Proof of how ensconced emoticons have become in our day-to-day chitchat
Our favourite anecdote in the IHT article — which is well worth reading all the way through — is this:
Kristina Grish, author of The Joy of Text: Mating, Dating and Techno-relating
, said she grew so accustomed to making the :−P symbol (a tongue hanging out) in instant messages at work that it once accidentally popped up, in three dimensions, on a date.
“When the waiter told us the specials,” she recalled in an e-mail message, “I made that face — not on purpose of course — because they sounded really drab and uninteresting. And the guy I was out with looked at me like I was insane and said: ‘Did you just make an IM face?‘ “
Prediction: the spillover of online behaviours, etiquette and worldviews into offline life is going to be big news over the next couple of years.
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