Emoticons will speak when you have no words to say...
I have read the one of the article
from IdeaMarketers Website, 'ExpressYour Emotions with Yahoo Messenger Emoticons' by Ray Caban. The author of this
article did make point on emoticons in yahoo messenger. In his article, the
author has list down some features that offered by yahoo messenger such sharing
video, files, photos, games and video calls with friends. To make the chatter’s
conversation to be more hilarious, the yahoo messenger service was added with
emoticons such as smileys and winks.
The
author defined about how the emoticons help the yahoo messenger chatters to
express their feelings such as happiness, sadness, anger while chatting. The
emoticons are divided into graphic emoticons and hidden emoticons. Graphic
emoticons reflect to the visual icons which make movements such as dancing,
scrolling, jumping and laughing (Luor et al., 2010). While, hidden emoticons
reflect to symbol which the chatters can type the shortcut code to display the
emoticons (Luor et al., 2010). For example, : ) stand for J. As such, the chatters
can understand the emoticons and its can make the conversation more interesting
and joyful in yahoo messenger.
In
my point of view, I’m very happy with this article because I’m also one of the
yahoo messenger users. I love to use emoticons because it is help me to express
my thoughts and emotions. In very beginning, messages that send are always
content with a lot of words and punctuation (Braumann et al., 2009). This can
make the conversation between the chatters become very bored and uninteresting.
But, once the emoticons are introduced, the messages become a mixture of visual
icon and wordings. The presents of emoticons in chatting help chatters to
express their thoughts and emotions without wasting time by typing long
sentences.
Other
than that, emoticons help the chatters to perceive the meaning that trying to
convey by the senders. By sending word messages, there is a chance for the
receiver to understand the meaning of the message wrongly. According to Tran et
al. (2005) ‘Pure text without emoticons, most cannot identify the correct
emotion, behavior and meaning of the sender. In order to that, the use of
visual icons together with the text can create more positive attitude than text
alone’. Therefore, it is easy to understand a message with emoticons more than
wording messages.
The
emoticons in yahoo messengers already become very popular among the internet
users and people liked to use it in their daily conversation via yahoo
messenger. But, there is a problem occurred when the receiver cannot view the
emoticons send by the sender. It was because the receiver did not download the
emoticons features. Therefore, to overcome this problem, I suggest the yahoo
messenger service should always upgrade their service by automatically attach
the emoticons to the yahoo messenger as it will help the users to view the
emoticons without downloading it.
References
Braumann, E., Preveden, O., Salleem, S., Xu, Y., & T.
Koeszegi, S. (2009). The effect of emoticons
in synchronous and asynchronous e-negotiations. 113-115.
Luor,
T. (., Wu, L.-l., & Lu, H.-P. (2010). The effect of emoticons in simplex
and complex task- oriented
communication: An empirical study of instant messaging. Computers in Human Behavior, Vol.26 , 889-895.
Tran,
M. H., Yang, Y., & Raikundalia, G. K. (2005). Supporting awareness in
instant messaging: an empirical study and
mechanism design. Proceedings of OZCHI , 1-10.
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