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at 1 Jun 2007: 19:34

the furs i talk to usually use text smilies like ^_^ and :3 etc etc.. i know a few, but every time i think i know all there is i meet someone else who uses totally different ones.

im confused.. did some furries just like sit down one day and invent a billion text smilies? can you guys post all the ones you know of so i can have a bigger smiley vocabulary?

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Raven//Puck at 2 Jun 2007: 00:03

The emotes you use as examples actually come from the anime fandom, as far as I know. They are not "furry" in origin.

In fact, I can't even think of any furry specific emotes at all. o.o

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Drift` at 2 Jun 2007: 01:20

I think it's the context in which you learn them/who you pick them up from.

I'll associate them with different things based on who I am talking to.

And in terms of a billion text smilies...probably. I know people who sit in WoW and make random creatures/animals/stuff in macros to use randomly, I would imagine people using all sorts of : ; ' " / = x d p ^ and such to make hundreds of them u.u

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at 2 Jun 2007: 05:17

I think South Park did an episode on wapanese, and the characters eyes all went like ^_^. I've only seen clips but it was quite disturbing.

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at 2 Jun 2007: 06:41

Sometimes I think I'm the only person using the internet that doesn't care to use little typographic emoticons at the end of sentences. It's always stuck me as childish and it's been a long time since I was a child. The words used in a sentence should be sufficient to express your emotional state.

But don't let me stop you from appearing childish if you choose to.

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Raven//Puck at 2 Jun 2007: 06:57

>>5

I can't count the amount of times people misconstrue what I am trying to say because they are not able to understand the style of writing I use. I mean, let's face it, text is not speech. It isn't face-to-face communication and there is no way to read tone of voice, facial expressions, or body language. So people use emotes to make up for that.

I don't think it's childish at all, unless the person is using them in a childish manner. It's just a way of compensating for the lack of other social cues.

This is one of those things which I like to call a "duh."

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at 2 Jun 2007: 07:36

How did people ever communicate their feelings through writing before someone invented emoticons?

They just DID. It wasn't that hard.

It's a generational thing. I'm probably twice the age of most people reading and writing here, and people over 40 didn't grow up using emoticons in their writing, so I feel no need to start now.

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at 2 Jun 2007: 08:16

=^.^= <3 >:3 X3

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Drakkon at 2 Jun 2007: 09:49

>>7

I'm gonna go out on a limb as suggest that while that works for you, it doesn't work for others.  Your sarcasm is both bitter and misplaced.  You should be upset with your own inability to accept that the world is changing and moving on without you.  I saw what it did to my grandmother.  She died a bitter old woman and it was very sad.  Lighten up.

And if you were trying to convey humor and levity...  You failed.  You might want to think about how to convey emotions with words instead of emoticons.  You're not very good at it. ^.^

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Raven//Puck at 2 Jun 2007: 13:30

>>7

Yes, and they communicated mostly through letters that were often only mailed to loved ones and took several days or weeks to reach their destination and return. We're talking about the internet, now. Open your eyes and look around, it's a brand new world. People communicate almost instantaneously -- and sometimes immediately -- with each other. Tensions can run very high, hence the emote has become one of the newest innovations to evolve within writing (mostly typing).

Keep the following in mind: I do not support the use of emotes within important or official letters, research papers, or other such Serious Business(TM). But I see how much it can help in casual conversational settings online, like here on Fchan.

>>9 does a really good job of explaining things, too. So truly, lighten up and try to open your mind to the reasons why things exist, even if you still end up preferring your way over that of others.

Note: This post has been kept emoticon free out of respect for your sanity and viewpoints.

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Gravecat at 2 Jun 2007: 22:27

Wow. Bitterness abounds in this thread, and this time it isn't mine. But am I the only one who finds it amusing that >>5 is complaining that emoticons are "childish", on a website primarily dedicated to the distribution of furry art, including cartoon characters and the like?

...Yeah. :3

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at 3 Jun 2007: 01:09

>>11
Sure, there's cartoon characters and funny, furry animals, but I don't think I'd call it 'childish' unless 'childish' equates to 'fucking like rabbits'...  ;)

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at 3 Jun 2007: 11:19

I was conveying neither bitterness or levity, just a difference of taste and preference. Little smiley faces at the end of messages are what schoolgirls used to draw when passing notes in class. It's struck me as a habit you grow out of, like chewing bubblegum and making snapping noises with it in your mouth. Perhaps the word "childish" came across as insulting, but that's how I see it.

And when did internet communication become fraught with high tension? That's the user's mindset, not the medium of communication at issue. Lightening up is being able to write without vitriol or the smarmy hipper-than-thou and cutting-one-another-down attitudes prevalent on the net (think of SA, CYD, Lulz, various other chan sites.) Disagreeing on the internet does not automatically equal "drama" unless you're attacking someone's esteem publicly.

The content on this website is aimed at "adults only". One of the main things that defines furry fandom is anthropomorphic content that aims to convey mature themes, even if many of the subjects are based on characters that originated as children's entertainment.

I'm aware that emoticons are here to stay, and I understand that  many people like to use them. I hope people also understand what they look like to people who don't care for them. It's similar to when people complain about the use of words like "fursonally" and "fursecution" and other furry little made-up words. They think it's cute and clever, others think it's stupid and makes them sound stupid.

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Raven//Puck at 3 Jun 2007: 15:42

>>13

The problem is, like I said, when I don't use one, I have noticed a greater chance that someone will get offended at what I say. I get accused of being the Blue Meanie if I don't end a sentence with "^^" or something.

That's just how people are. And those of us who want to have a fairly decent social experience here, especially those of us charged with running something like this, need to just adapt. Don't know what else to tell you. Luckily, that's not something you have to worry about.

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Drakkon at 3 Jun 2007: 20:11

>>13

Like it or not, even older people like me (I'm in my mid-30s, thank you) have words like lol, hax, and suxxorz creeping into his vocabulary.  This old dragon isn't narrow.  I work with computers, security, and passwords, and when I have to change passwords so that letters and numbers get used interchangeably, you have to start to think outside the box.  Its just a fact of our modern life.  Saying it does or doesn't belong somewhere is just... narrow.  Railing against change makes you sound old.  Old and tired.  Try to let things go.  You'll be happier.

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at 3 Jun 2007: 23:49

>>13
Blame the (mis)educational system of a lilting demockracy and the worship of amoral, worthless, birdbrained rich shitheads like Paris Hilton and sly huckster politicos like Bill Clinton. Proper  literacy skills have been supplanted by insultingly simplistic schoolyard rhyming verse and emotionally driven rhetoric, flowery or otherwise. All you have to do is remember that evil always wins in this world, and that is why it is viewed by the more enlightened as a never-ending life and death struggle, in this case that cardinal sin is sloth. It would truly be to your detriment to take the advice of a progressive hipster and just 'let things go.'
These simple facts and more have been known for at least a century, perhaps you would enjoy a certain book by one Friar Salvany by the name of Liberalism is a Sin. It is actually an umbrella term, as it goes in depth into the enormous variety of negative ways such laissez faire thoughts impact your life and the lifeblood of your community in both major and minor. And I advise you to note again, it was written over a hundred years ago. That alone ought to tell you something about the way the majority will always lean without necessary corrective measures.

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at 4 Jun 2007: 13:17

what the fuck did this thread devolve into


seriously what the fuck

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at 4 Jun 2007: 17:04

>>16
Woah, woah, woah! I don't believe the practice of adding silly little emoticons to sentences is a signal of the decline of civilization due to liberalism. I thought maybe someone would simply agree that it does look kinda childish, not delve into an extremely conservative rant over it. I suspect you're trolling; no one could dig online furry porn AND believe in that rant at the same time.

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at 4 Jun 2007: 18:45

o.O

The sudden stern political overtones make me scared. Apparently, some fchan furries are weirdos after all.

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at 4 Jun 2007: 23:36

Back to the topic at hand, I've seen
^.=.^
used as a furry emote. You can kinda see a snout or muzzle. Kinda.

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Foxon at 5 Jun 2007: 03:55

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at 5 Jun 2007: 07:36

>>20
Doesn't seem like a particularly good one, frankly. Now that I know what it's supposed to look like, I still don't 'see' it. :/

♪┏(・o・)┛♪┗ ( ・o・) ┓♪┏ ( ) ┛♪┗ (・o・ ) ┓♪┏(・o・)┛♪

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Terror at 5 Jun 2007: 13:01

(\_/)
(o.o)
(")(")

Here a cute bunneh for you all out there...
its an emoticon ;3

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Kits at 5 Jun 2007: 17:36

^o.o^ This is a raccoon.
^o.o> Ear tilted to the side.
^-.-^ Ect.
/o.o\ This is a bunny with floppy ears.o.O There are lots of furry ones.

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Aborn! at 5 Jun 2007: 21:21

Aborn! -No.

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at 5 Jun 2007: 22:28

>>24
The problem with the first three is that ^_^ and ^^; and such are in common use - most people would say that instead of ears, those look like some kind of four-eyed mutants...

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Nick at 5 Jun 2007: 22:58

I find emoticons to be handy when using IM because it's significantly easier to express "I am happy" or "I am amused" with a simple :) or :D. They can also be handy for the same purpose in an email to a friend.

However, anyone who uses them in a professional or work environment needs to be taken aside and explained that it's not really appropriate. If you cannot express yourself clearly with words, perhaps you need to rethink what you're trying to say&nbsp;&nbsp;.

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Nick at 5 Jun 2007: 22:59

>>27 Hm, not sure where those entities came from...

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abledfire at 8 Jun 2007: 02:10

lol, this thread is CRAZY! >.<
oh well, 4 am, time to hit the sack ~.~ - ZZZZZzzzzzzzz

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Pristine at 1 May 2009: 02:18

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It's a snake

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at 1 May 2009: 02:36

Holy shit, thanks for reviving this fucking dead thread.

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Farfoos at 2 May 2009: 08:12

Ahhh, emoticons...I blame myself really.  It is nice to see my 'ol arguments are still around though...still, my original had actual percentage figures over the loss in communication, as well as all the different forms of communication that were lot in a plain text environment (tone of voice, gestures, body odors, facial expressions, etc, etc).

Hrmmm...I wonder if it still exists.  I should try and find it in Google...although their old Usenet archive has been pretty screwed over the past few years, pretty much ever since they bought it from Deja back in...whatever the fuck year that happened in (late 90s I think), yeah, its been downhill.

Although keep in mind I wasn't actually the *FIRST* person to use emoticons...I'm just the first person to come up with a rational argument for using them...back in...the late 80s...or early 90s...I don't remember exactly, I've been online for a LOOOONG damn ass time.

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