Comments on: Gmail is too cute – no seriously

By: Why I dropped Google Buzz | archshrk

Why I dropped Google Buzz | archshrk — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:27:12 +0000

[...] its spam stopping capabilities and threaded emails but then there was Tip Jar, Google China and Emoticons. Not to mention the hotly debated [...]

By: SHARA PALIN

SHARA PALIN — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:22:56 +0000

YOU SUCK! EMOTICONS RULE

By: Adonis

Adonis — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:32:52 +0000

Well you must have done something. As it used to be the obnoxious picture ads for smilies – now it’s just the slightly-less-obnoxious ‘text only’ adds for smilies…

I suppose that change fits with the post. =)

Feel free to *cough* borrow anything I post on the *plug* InkTank Forums…

By: archshrk

archshrk — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:19:46 +0000

funny man R. Sherman, funny man. (smiling on the inside)

By: archshrk

archshrk — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:18:29 +0000

Oh, the irony! And they’ll stay there until enough new content fills the front page. That’s your que Adonis, I need something to ~~steel~~, er borrow.
:)

By: R. Sherman

R. Sherman — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:47:08 +0000

Joke comment:

Cheers.

By: Adonis

Adonis — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:27:18 +0000

Unfortunately, due to context, most of the ads on this page are for Emoticons as in “We’ve got your Favorite..” and “Free… Get them now”.

Poor archshrk. :P

By: Adonis

Adonis — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:04:19 +0000

“After all, my parents didnâ€™t name me archshrk.”

They didn’t? I’m completely disillusioned now.

Though if you were in Hollywood I could see that happening…

By: archshrk

archshrk — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:55:56 +0000

Just to clarify, by real name I mean who you are “online”. After all, my parents didn’t name me archshrk. But I doubt anyone goes by “Loving EOM gmail” or “yo momma” or “visitor” while online.

By: Adonis

Adonis — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:48:08 +0000

I’m not a emoticon hater, per say. I use them, rather frequently on forums and a good number of emails. Mostly to make the point that I’m kidding around, and to add a bit of ‘flavour’ to the message.

I like the ones on the InkTank Forums – best place to find me – though I do try to limit it to 2-3 per longer message. When using IM (Windows Live Messenger) I usually end every 2nd or 3rd message with *one* icon – if only to make up for the lack of any other way to express emotion/inflection.

Most of the time I prefer the text-only ones, though the ‘default round’ (Windows Live and most Invision boards) aren’t too bad. I’m not liking the square Gmail ones, or the speech bubble ones, or most of the others elsewhere (unless they’re simple and round). I’ve got a Hotmail account so it doesn’t directly affect me…

A few friends of mine use ‘paranoid’ email settings (no images display) so I end up using the text ‘emotes’ more often anyway. That usually involves typing the text version and adding an extra space so it doesn’t “auto correct” and most of the time going back and deleting the extra space…. no way to turn it off (Windows Live Mail) that I can see, but I’m used to doing the above now anyway.

Some of the more exotic emotes usually get most people asking “What is that supposed to be?” which totally defeats the purpose of using them.

As with Arantor, more people online know me as Adonis rather than my real name (and the first/last combo is ‘famous’ so you’d have a hard time finding me anyway). My avatar is home-made, so if you see it, it’s almost certainly me – unless someone has stolen it. >:( (don’t hurt me for the face)