People are using emoticons into there day to day lives. The question is do they really mean at times what they say? The American Journal of Sociology authors Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian have expressed how subject lines and signatures define what has to be interpreted in formal communication. A new set of interactional skills in short.
It is true that while text messaging, communicating by messenger, sending emails, commenting on blogs, writing an article (formal and informal both) use of emoticons have grown. Why? Besides face-to-face conversations, body-language and context, emoticons are good way to express things. Basically an add-on to writing.
I feel that emoticons can be sometimes, just a way to deceive people, as in, you do not mean what you say. For example a smiley to make the person/s believe that they are good and happy, whereas they are not (maybe).
Effective, online strategies, in short. Like there are other ways of communicating Capital letters, use of quotations, exclamation points, punctuations, bulleted points are a few. I AM BUSY, reflects a new dimension to meaning. A smiley added to the sentence leads to sarcasm.
