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Emoticontest - Why do you use emoticons?
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Using a smiley or any other emoticon to express yourself, has become rather an integrated part of IM’ing. Yahoo, and MSN have been building their emoticon banks ever since early 2000.
Yahoo! has recently launched a competition the Emoticontest. Yahoo! Messenger will add six new animated emoticons to its service in the coming months. One has to submit a photo of a signature look or favorite expression. The Bix online community will vote on the submissions and determine the next generation of emoticons in Yahoo!Messenger. There are only few pictures out of the 3000 plus contest entrants that actually do come under the realm of the contest. Here are my favorite looks.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the emoticon, Yahoo! conducted a survey of 40,000 Yahoo! Messenger users, to reveal where and how emoticons play a role in everyday communication.
Here are a few static’s.
• 82% of respondents think that women are more likely to use emoticons than men.
• Men are more prone to use IM and emoticons to fire someone (14%) versus women [11%]. – Has anyone ever used an emoticon to fire someone?
• The majority of survey respondents say that they best express themselves in IM using
• Emoticons. Nearly two-thirds (61%) rely on emoticons to best express their feelings, while 17% rely on Internet slang
So what are the reasons you use an emoticon for?
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