I provide information about my social media sites and attempt to popularize two emoticon usages that I (re)invented. Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter (Video Updates): twitter.com WordPress (Private Message Responses): evid3nc3.wordpress.com Dumb face: :F Serious face: |:-| == About the Emoticons == Apparently, the :F has been used for “vampire” or a “snake sticking its tongue out” and |:-| has been used for “a serious guy with a unibrow”. However, as Kabitu insightfully points out in the comments, I think usability and emotional recognizability come into play in? emoticon creation. Ie when are you really going to need emoticons for a snake sticking its tongue out, a vampire, or a serious guy? with a unibrow unless you are flooding your conversation with needless emoticons? I think a good emoticon captures an emotion in a way that accentuates pure text and makes a statement more expressive. This concludes my official argument for why people should use these emoticons for the purposes portrayed in the video 
May the public decide their fate |:-| — All excerpts used in this video are either copyright-free or covered under “fair use” in Title 17 § 107 of the USC — Music: 1234 by Wizard of odD (no longer available for download) www.myspace.com But check out his wicked band, The Unordinaries: itunes.apple.com .
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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psalm405 says:
July 11, 2011 at 2:01 am (UTC 0)
You should also get a Google+ account!
Prplfox says:
July 11, 2011 at 2:10 am (UTC 0)
Serious face is so serious!! |:-|
waltonky says:
July 11, 2011 at 2:56 am (UTC 0)
Is the arrangement of the icons into #FTW intentional?
Boayue220 says:
July 11, 2011 at 3:40 am (UTC 0)
Love the emoticons lol
wouterW24 says:
July 11, 2011 at 4:02 am (UTC 0)
Being used to serious videos about complicated matters, I found you using the very same voice for explaining the smileys funny for some reason.
Will keep a watch on the facebook page, although I am not liking due to privacy reasons. I’m sure you understand why, Everbody can see the likes, and I rather keep my views for myself at this point in time.
TheSkunkCat says:
July 11, 2011 at 4:43 am (UTC 0)
Facebook can make pages for someone without their consent?
It must be destroyed.
bu1ckgnx says:
July 11, 2011 at 4:54 am (UTC 0)
I invented the Vampire face }:-[
The closed curvy bracket is the classic vamp widow's peak hair, and the open box bracket is the fangs. It's use: I'm going to suck your blood }:-[
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Quietville says:
July 11, 2011 at 5:06 am (UTC 0)
been using dumb face for years!!!! so pumped that it is getting big~
dumb face is best face imo :FFFF
Karateworm says:
July 11, 2011 at 5:14 am (UTC 0)
This is serious news. |:-|
Evid3nc3 says:
July 11, 2011 at 5:27 am (UTC 0)
@ProfMTH
Thanks Prof
WarhawkDrier says:
July 11, 2011 at 6:07 am (UTC 0)
What about a seriously dumb face? |:-F
ProfMTH says:
July 11, 2011 at 6:14 am (UTC 0)
“If you don’t like social media, that’s OK. But I really don’t want to hear about it.”
LOL! Love it.
3Gyro says:
July 11, 2011 at 6:15 am (UTC 0)
I don’t like social media
SmallFries01 says:
July 11, 2011 at 6:30 am (UTC 0)
@waffles497 consider this motivation |:-|
QuantumGh0st says:
July 11, 2011 at 6:31 am (UTC 0)
968 facebook likes & rising.
euzebiogb says:
July 11, 2011 at 6:41 am (UTC 0)
Best news in years.
waffles497 says:
July 11, 2011 at 7:40 am (UTC 0)
wish I could ‘like’ the page but my dumb family is on facebook and I’m not really out as an atheist.
squirreljester2 says:
July 11, 2011 at 7:41 am (UTC 0)
FB added, I’m number 959, woot!
CntrBrdr says:
July 11, 2011 at 8:00 am (UTC 0)
=()
WCWThunderOnYT says:
July 11, 2011 at 8:47 am (UTC 0)
I love around the 1:27 mark where it seems you got confused in your own words. For once, your video didn’t sound perfect and that, in a way, made it even better.
abe22g says:
July 11, 2011 at 9:17 am (UTC 0)
Google+
robospike55 says:
July 11, 2011 at 9:33 am (UTC 0)
Cereal face haz teh unibrowz
gaglamesh731 says:
July 11, 2011 at 9:49 am (UTC 0)
I still don’t like social media :FF
BalthazzarCH says:
July 11, 2011 at 10:15 am (UTC 0)
¦:-| <=Serious face w/o unibrow
FoolTuber41 says:
July 11, 2011 at 11:10 am (UTC 0)
Evid3nc3 – An emoticon and intellectual journey from :F to |:-|