They do not, however, belong in my work email in-box and instant messages. I say this, because I work with several remote employees fairly regularly. There is one, in particular, (we'll call her Petunia) that I honestly have no idea if she hates me, loves me, thinks I'm the stupidest person on the planet, or hails me as a genius, because of her less than predictable use of emoticons. She is an over-winker, for sure. It follows instructions, greetings, scoldings...I'm not sure if she wants to date me or thinks I'm an idiot. Sometimes I want to ask her if her computer has something in its eye. I can overlook a friendly smiley or confused face in the office, but if the end message looks like my 2nd grade daughter wrote your email with a box of crayons because of your emoticon use, you might consider cutting back a bit.
Kick the Smiley Habit...
Funny and insightful April!
ReplyDelete(-: love that <3 you made my heart flutter thinking of all the emotions that can be used (0= But I completely agree that the use of "smiley's" should be limited to friends and children; not business!! <3 you! Have a great day (-;
ReplyDeletelove it! =( <-hee hee!
ReplyDelete;-P (Couldn't Resist) It is afterall my favorite emoticon...except for the sheep. Yeah. We use Microsoft Lync 2010 at work, and one of the pre-installed emoticons in the emoticon package is a sheep. When would one use a sheep? If you want to type him, rather than selecting him from the menu, you type: (bah). That makes me giggle.
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