So I’ve never really gone for this whole emoticon business. I don’t write “LOL” in emails, my message client Gaim doesn’t render emoticons so I get a lot of :), $;/ and whatever else that I really have no idea which emotion the person’s trying to pass along.

Why am I such an emoticon bitch? It just doesn’t work so I don’t bother. It’s hard enough to convey emotional context over the phone, but through a text based software application it’s just pointless so why try.

Years back I used to play some chess online in an attempt to learn how to play the game. I had no clue what “LOL” meant in the game chats. My first assumption, which lasted months, was Lot’s Of Love. I was getting loads of love until I figured out they were laughing at me.

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