Social network tries to make things easier with more expressions to use in status updates. Sure%2C facial looks can powerfully communicate%2C but emoticons are bare-bones imitations. Words allow us to ...

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I would like to see the written word make a comeback. And the best way to do that is to give us fewer ways to hide behind GIFs, emojis and emoticons. Or if you are going use emoticon, maybe write a ...

Forms of communication are evolving and expanding, as evidenced by the incorporation of emoticons and emojis into our written communication. Emoji is a Japanese word used to refer to images or ...

To be clear, I'm not referring to the animated yellow blinking-andwinking smiley faces with their wagging pink tongues but to the simple sideways punctuation that passes for feeling. With so much of ...