Social Media

I provide information about my social media sites and attempt to popularize two emoticon usages that I (re)invented.

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/Evid3nc3

Twitter (Video Updates):
http://twitter.com/#!/Evid3nc3

WordPress (Private Message Responses):
http://evid3nc3.wordpress.com/

Dumb face:
:F

Serious face:
|:-|

== About the Emoticons ==

Apparently, the :F has been used for "vampire" or a "snake sticking its tongue out" and |:-| has been used for "a serious guy with a unibrow".

However, as Kabitu insightfully points out in the comments, I think usability and emotional recognizability come into play in emoticon creation. I.e. when are you really going to need emoticons for a snake sticking its tongue out, a vampire, or a serious guy with a unibrow unless you are flooding your conversation with needless emoticons?

I think a good emoticon captures an emotion in a way that accentuates pure text and makes a statement more expressive.

This concludes my official argument for why people should use these emoticons for the purposes portrayed in the video :) May the public decide their fate |:-|

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All excerpts used in this video are either copyright-free or covered under "fair use" in Title 17 § 107 of the USC

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Music:
1234 by Wizard of odD (no longer available for download)
http://www.myspace.com/wizardofodd/
But check out his wicked band, The Unordinaries:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/reveries/id439668577

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Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Evid3nc3
• facebook
• twitter
• wordpress
• emoticons
• dumb
• face
• serious

[ProfMTH]

"If you don't like social media, that's OK. But I really don't want to hear about it."

LOL! Love it.

[Evid3nc3]

@ProfMTH

Thanks Prof :)

[Evid3nc3]

@digit010101

Then you probably should have stopped after the message at 0:06

[TheSkinnyMiz]

Just letting you know, fan of yours right here! - I just can't like your page wuth my real life FB account cuz I live in a muslim country and atheism is punishable by death in the Quran :-O

nah I don't they'd actually kill someone for that :x Just everyone now thinks you're crazy and you'd never hear the end of it with people trying to convert you back XP

[VegasTechno]

You did not invent :F... F;

[RedCrescentDemon]

Just noticed something.

Facebook

Twitter

Wordpress

FTW

[RedCrescentDemon]

@DizzyDisco93 Just google japanes emoticons and you'll find whole lists of them. Lots of fun and possibilities. Way better than being limited to using parenthesis, colons, dashes and underscores.

[DizzyDisco93]

@RedCrescentDemon how did u do that |:-|

[taffysaur]

if i was on facebook i would def. add you or friend you or w/evs. :F

[Zachdudeio2]

Cool story bro

[FattyMcFox]

[-o-] tie fighter. i have no idea why i wanted to share that but i just do so i did.

[RedCrescentDemon]

Your emoticons are cool but, american emoticons feel so bland as opposed to to japanese emoticons. （￣ー￣） Just look at this one. ＼（＾∀＾）メ（＾∀＾）ノ

[sidelingscroll]

Dumb face... :F

Derp face... XF