Student Opinion | What New Emoticons Does the World Need? NYTimes.com

I can still remember the first time I saw an emoticon.

It was around 1996, and my old friend Mike was showing me the website he had put up for our rock band, The Flaming Blue Iguanas (don’t hate :D).

We were looking through some comments and he said the parenthesis and colon formed a smiley face. “Turn your head sideways and look at it.”

And the rest, as they say, was history. 😉

Students: Tell us about the new emoticons, or emoji, you think the world might need, and describe what they might look like. For instance, what messages do you often find yourself texting your friends or your parents that could be simplified somehow into punchy cartoons? What emotions do you sometimes feel that might make useful emoticons? What places, events or activities would be handy to have as in your phone as emoticon shorthand?

LINK: Student Opinion | Should People Be Allowed to Obscure Their Identities Online? NYTimes.com .

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