Emoticons are getting out of hand
Remember the days when the only emoticons around were simple smiley faces?
:) :D ;) :P B)
Now, chat clients have learned to parse these characters and convert them into animated GIFs, that relic of mid-to-late 90s web design. There are ninjas, and pirates, and cowboys, and Pacman chasing ghosts, and who knows what else. What emotion [...]