Wishlist: sharable emoticon sets
Clearly we need larger, more varied, more topic-specific visual vocabularies. James Bridle is a visual guy and I'm sure he could have come up with emoticons specific to cowboy romance cinema. The better to share stories with friends.
For me, I sooo want a bunch of Jewish emoticons, like:
(borscht)
(bagel)
(matzoh)
(2candles)
(feh)
(oy)
(minyan)
(lox)
(kvel)
(tzitzit)
(dancingchasid)
(chelm)
(kosher)
(treif)
(bris)
(guilt)
(crushingglass)
(daven)
(dreydl)
(megillah)
(lchaim)
(shofar)
These have meaning for me, are part of my social vocabulary. Glad to provide translations if anyone cares.
But this list is specific to me and my tribe.
It would be enormous fun to have additional emoticon sets to freely, easily and safely share and trade. If you don't have a set, you see the text. If you do, you see the art. Inherently viral, social, meaningful.
And fun.
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2 Comments:
icons can never be religious, because that would create tensions. soon you'll be ending up with different chat platforms for different religions and races. that can't be good. creating walls, segregration and separatism on chat-platforms...
I like the idea of celebrating the things we share and our differences. Icon sets, not the baseline ones that come with Skype, but the sets our communities produce out of love, fun, loyalty, belonging, these sets can bring us closer.
Even if people disagree or argue, that's good too. The point of a communications platform is to help people talk, for good or bad. Emoticons help some people, some times. And if you don't get the (finger) because we haven't shared the same emoticon set, you'll still see the name and understand what I meant to say.
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