The invasion of the MSN emoticons

I’ve never been a huge fan of MSN emoticons. I think they’re rather juvenile and nearly cringed when I saw my beloved ASCII πŸ™‚ being automatically replaced by thesmiley in MSN. I have become somewhat desensitized to the cartoonish nature of the emoticon in recent times though. It’s a little like how I used to cringe at the truncated πŸ™‚ in IRC and stuck to my fundamentalist smiley – πŸ™‚ for ages before relenting to the truncated smiley.

I’ve always found the default MSN smiley a bit corny but have grown to embrace it and even love it. I have recently grown fond of theworries emoticon too – a smirk of sorts capable of expressing a wide range of emotions from distaste to worry.

sideways-smiley

The one that takes the cake is a custom emoticon (Custom emoticons! OMG! I can’t believe how far I’ve traveled down this road!) I just got from a co-worker. I call it the sideways smiley and I’m growing to like it a lot. (!)

I’ve always thought of MSN custom emoticons as the realm of pre-pubescent teenage girls and now I’m experimenting with the cursed things!

karen-msn

I’ve even resorted to soliciting random custom emoticons!

(and putting up MSN conversation chat boxes – ZOMG!)

I’m worried.

I fear for my manhood. worries

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22 thoughts on “The invasion of the MSN emoticons”

  1. Haha and I remember how you didn’t know there are other emoticons in MSN! I never like too many emoticons used in a conversation especially the custom ones, it’s annoying!!!!!!!!

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  2. i rarely use emoticons. only to really express some emotion i’ll use it. other than it, plain text.
    those emoticons that mix up with normal conversation text is really killing sometime.

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  3. I once got turned away from work ( age 18, and should have known better), cause I was wearing a “smiley face, Have a nice day” tee shirt, with a bullet hole throuh the image. But, then, I also got sent home for wearing a Bart Simpson tee shirt, because it was “inaprorpriate for a manager trainee”. I guess the most ergegious of my offeneses was when I wore a “now it’s miller time” shirt just to piss off anti war demonstators at the gate of the base where I was serving at the time. ( the shirt showed a B-52, peeling away from a mushroom cloud, and I was a 52 nuc.) I can still remember the co’s tirade “are you guys out of your GD minds… etc. I belive in freedom of expression, even if distasteful to my own code of ethicis. Emoticons are not gay, just a short hand lanugage, and I hope to see some new, really offensive ones evolve soon. Just to piss persons off.
    Tom

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  4. The one I have never seen on a shirt is the pic of a womens rights rally. And one guy in the back is holding a sign that says “iron my shirt bitch”. Even I dont have enough balls to make, wear, or print that on a shirt. Men just think they rule. Sorry , talk to any guy over 30, and they will tell the truth. And it is not too bad, after all.
    Tom

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  5. OMG i can’t believe you’re one of those people! I hate emoticons except those smileys because they are so annoying especially you can’t tell them at first glance!

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  6. A lil bit of it is ok. But sometimes emoticons can get in the way of reading. I have to right click it and click copy to see the actual word behind the annoying gif.

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