Why no emoticons in this site?

Mar 21, 2008 / 1:06 am

in Personal, Thought, Webdev / tags: icon, image

I am not a fan of emoticon. But, I am fine if I see smilies used in websites, blogs, or discussion forums. Nowadays, smilies/emoticons are widely used by many web applications, etc; and I have to confest that I do not know each of them, do you?

Okey, what’s emoticon anyway? According to Wikipedia:

an emoticon is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form.

To be more spesific, current web applications have a built-in emoticon feature. For example, if you’re using WordPress, we can manage how smilies should be presented: only symbols or converted them into graphics/icons. There are some reasons why I do not use emoticons in this site.

I do not want to display text, images and any other important message and I presented many icons at the same time.
Smiley symbols are enough to represent emotional content.
I do not want to give symbols that’s hard to understand. Okey, I think it’s more about me who does not know much about smiley symbols.

This is — of course — more about my personal preferences. I am fine with emoticons at other sites/blogs. But, if there is an option not to use the icons, I will choose not to see that. For example, if we registered at a discussion forum, we can have options on how smiley symbols should be treated.

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March 21st, 2008 • # 1:06 am

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This entry receives 8 comments.

gagahput3ra

Well, nice to see someone has its own preference in the blogging world :D but as for me myself, i can’t live without emoticon. :P

Mar 21, 2008 at 6:21 am
snydez

and people tend to misunderstood of what they read while no emoticon around :)

Mar 22, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Trinie Lupin

I love cutey emoticons for my blogs :D
But it is hard to find one without spywares :(
Can anybody suggest one for me?

Mar 23, 2008 at 12:41 am
Pujiono

Me either do not like emoticons on my blogs. It seems the blogs will look messy if I use them. Sometimes users put them on comments that I can’t control directly. How to toggle off the emoticons on my blogs?

Mar 25, 2008 at 9:24 am
puty

you know what, thomas. you’re too cool, and too neat, and too elegant for emoticons. seriously. *worship*. :D

Mar 25, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Yosu

Say…
This is the kind of entry that ticks me to do things.
Like… purposely putting a smily. XD

I dont know about you, but I cant live without smilies.

Mar 29, 2008 at 8:52 am
kus

setelah gak nampilin links, kemudian emoticon, terus apa lagi?

BTW emoticon cuma bikin kamu terlihat kekanak - kanak an.

Apr 2, 2008 at 10:05 am
Thomas Arie

Pujiono, I think we can disable emoticon globally in WordPress from the Options panel.

Apr 4, 2008 at 5:38 am