| One of the most common tools for communication | | | | emotions, sometimes better than words can. For |
| that we have today is the SMS text messaging | | | | example if you wanted to send a smile SMS to |
| service. Anyone who has a mobile phone in their | | | | someone, you can do so by sending an emotion |
| possession will without a doubt use the SMS | | | | happy faced smiley instead of typing out an entire |
| application. Next to making a phone call, it is the next | | | | messages that will convey you are happy or smiling. |
| fastest, easiest and most instant form of | | | | Emoticons certainly get the job done much faster, |
| communication on the most easily accessible | | | | and it is a real space saver too. Compared to typing |
| communication tool that we have in our possession. | | | | out an entire message, which could take a lot of time |
| However, sending a SMS text is not like sending an | | | | and possibly a number of messages just to convey |
| email or a letter. True you are also composing and | | | | how you feel, you can instead just send a smile SMS |
| typing out the message to be sent, but unlike | | | | with a happy faced emotion and the person will |
| crafting out an email or letter, you don't have a lot of | | | | instantly get what you mean. |
| space to work with when it comes to SMS. Mobile | | | | With text messaging, you sometimes need to be |
| phones usually have a word limit on the SMS | | | | careful about the things you say or write because |
| messages sent, and typing out the full length of the | | | | messages can easily be misunderstood by the |
| words sometimes takes up a lot of space. This is | | | | receiving party, especially if the SMS happens to be |
| why abbreviations, or rather the shorter from of the | | | | long winded or much too complicated. Keep things |
| words, are used instead of typing out the full length | | | | simple, short and to the point at best to avoid any |
| of it. | | | | unnecessary complications that might arise. Such as |
| For example, the word 'Text' becomes 'Txt', the | | | | when you want to convey that you are happy or |
| word 'crying' becomes 'cryn' for short, and phrases | | | | smiling in the message. A smile SMS with a happy |
| such as 'laugh out loud' becomes 'LOL', or 'talk to you | | | | faced emotion certainly gets the point clear across |
| later' becomes 'ttyl'. And sometimes words can even | | | | much better than an SMS filled with words trying to |
| be replaced with what is known as emoticons. | | | | convey the same meaning would. |
| Emoticons are little yellow smiley faces that convey | | | | |