text msgs need smilies :)

They really do. I'm just saying.

I know there has been some controversy between a few stick in the muds and the rest of the world as to whether smilies are a force of good or evil, the argument going that a little semicolon paired up with the right parenthesis is a shortcut that makes people not think about wording and degenerates our writing skills. I say, when you are texting or emailing or talking on a forum, you don't want to spend fourteen hours considering your wording. You want to keep in touch with friends and make new ones. Hell, for most of the history of humanity, most of us have been illiterate anyway. So that we have a society where pretty much everyone can compose such messages at all is good.

I am queen of the smilies. I put them on everything. In one forum I once accepted a challenge of using every smilie in the forum's system. Took me three hours to compose and some creative usage of a few of those smilies, but I did it.

So yesterday I was texting the lovely husband and put in a sarcastic remark. He texted back asking whether that was serious or not. And it occurred to me, what my phone needs is a :, a ;, and a ( and ). This would cover such things.

Or maybe I need to learn to compose my text messages better instead of letting my text writing skills degenerate.