Emoticon

preserving the environment like "Please throw your trash here" and when the cover opens. And at the time of closing the cap trash bin will deliver message "Thank you for dispose of trash in place. And always keep the cleanliness around you” and emoticon smile in LED dot…

poor command of the language. The study indicates that young people are increasingly prone to texting by using cyberspeak but also less permanent forms of communication (Greenhow& Robelia). Teenagers can use shortened words, abbreviated words and emoticons to communicate with other users. Frequent users are more likely to adopt. This style of communication in their daily lives can interfere with their ability to command or write proper English. In conclusion, social networking service has the…

Texting is very convenient for people who are busy such as work hours or in a class and just want to send a short message to their friends and family. We don't have to make a sound or talk while texting. Texting allow us to send pictures and emoticons, which improve the conversation more interesting. At the point when people needs to describe something, for example, an item, they don't need to clarify so much and could simply send a photo of it and also help the person who don’t know to express…

Since the beginning of time, our society has created ways to communicate which has evolved from primitive language and markings to more recent technologies including telephones and computers. Today’s technology enables people to interact with each other in settings that are not face-to-face. The use of telephones and computers has started a trend for the most recent addition to communication- social media. Regardless of location, social networking websites allows families, couples, and friends…

As technology advance, so does our way of communicating. In Michaela Cullington’s “Does Texting Affect Writing” Cullington answer the effects of textspeak, a language used in texting that is often composed of abbreviation, acronyms, and emoticon. In her essay, she addresses the concerns, her experimentation, and findings on the effects of textspeak. Using several rhetorical contexts: logos, pathos, and ethos, Cullington puts forth a convincing argument against textspeak impacting formal writing…

My Biggest Failure After countless, long summer days, my best friend, Melina and I both dreaded to go back to school as Sophomores. We had known each other ever since the fourth grade and everyone around us such as our peers and family members had known us to be inseparable. She basically lived with my family and I. My parents would also refer to her as “our adopted daughter.” We coordinated our outfits to dress alike, began running track together, and as we got a bit older we youthfully…

Gender Differences in Texting and Cell Phone Usage Katie Yancey Georgia Southern University Almost every person has or has used a cell phone. Cell phone usage has grown over the past decade tremendously. Texting has also exceeded all forms of communication including emails, phone calls, and letters. It has become the primary way for high school students and college students to communicate to others. Text messaging could be replacing face-to-face conversations for teens. It has become…

There will be more abbreviations, more emoticons, and possibly a whole different type of language all together. As McWhorter acknowledges, “if somebody from 1973 looked at what was on a dormitory message board in 1993, the slang would have changed a little bit, but they would understand what was…

Alfredo Rojas Ms. Smith AED English 10 02 November 2017 The great gap There has been a great controversy about if social media has made us closer or farther from each other. Social media is like a window that allows us to do things that in the past were just imagination and dreams, such as talking with people around the world, seeing them, making us feel as if we were there, but, does it make us less in contact with the actual things that surround us? Social media is everything where we can…

William Safire, in the column, “Emoticons”, questions why iconography is now replacing the communication of descriptive words in instant messaging as well as in real life. Safire supports his question by explaining how “desktop” has come to mean a computer’s opening screen displaying icons…