Communication on the Internet, preferably in chats, messengers or social media, has a big problem: you can't see the other person.
Facial expressions, gestures and body language are completely ignored when communicating via the keyboard, although these things play an important role in interpersonal communication.

Since these types of body language cannot be conveyed in fast internet correspondence, placeholders have been developed to convey the respective mood. We are all familiar with these placeholders; they are the classic smiles, or in recent years also known as emojis or emoticons
In particular, the word emoticon (emotion + icon) is a better description than smiley, since a smiley, from the word's origin, only contains a smile; emoticon indicates an emotional state, which does not necessarily have to be positive.
You're dumb!
In addition to emoticons, there are also certain spellings and expressions that convey an intention. For example, the sentence “You’re stupid!” can be interpreted differently depending on the labeling:
If someone writes to me:
1. “You are stupid!” that is a statement that I have to take as such.
If someone writes
2. “You’re stupid,
” the sentence could well come from my wife, who loves me.
And
3. “You are stupid!!!!11!!!eleven!!!
can be a buddy who is fun. Only spelling 1 is dangerous, all others are not meant seriously. But do I as the recipient also notice this ?
Characters or abbreviations instead of emoticons
Since images, i.e. emoticons, are not available everywhere on the internet, certain character sequences form the way mood indicators are represented.
Famous at this point is the wink, which is a friendly symbol and is represented like this: ^^ Many abbreviations come from the times of chat platforms that are still used today and express a mood. The classic “LOL”, as well as “wtf” or “OMG” were created this way. Since chatting should be quick, these cuts have become established as a mood indicator.

Depending on the platform on which you post the strings (such as Facebook), certain strings are interpreted and converted into emoticons. This is also the classic way to enter emoticons. For example, the string <3 on Facebook automatically becomes .
We show a large overview of these character strings, which are automatically converted, .
OneEleven! and Leetspeak
The use of emoticons is still quite easy to understand and evaluate for almost everyone involved. Here a gesture is transmitted visually, which is not difficult to interpret due to its simple representation.
However, the situation becomes more difficult when writers use various expressions that are less common and also require a certain amount of background knowledge. Irritations often arise at these points, some of which are even deliberately caused.
As an example of this you can use “EinsElf!” lead. Someone who is OneEleven! (“!!!111!!!!einself!!” or similar) as a punctuation mark at the end of a sentence, has deliberately irritated with the previous sentence, or has deliberately made a statement that is of course not true, but one is aware of it content makes it funny, almost as an ironic exaggeration. EinsElf is also often used by trolls and often goes together with the expressions “ Drölf ” or “ Drölfzig ”, which are misleading as fictitious numbers. Anyone who knows these respective expressions understands the meaning. However, if you don't know them, you sometimes run the risk of taking the statements seriously and fall into exactly the trap that many authors want.
(Screenshot: forum.worldofplayers.de)
The situation is very similar with the so-called Leetspeak (Elite+Speak, looks like this: M1m1X4m4 instead of Mimikama). Here, wherever possible, an attempt is made to exchange letters for numbers or special characters so that a word becomes difficult to read, but can still be recognized. However, the intention is less humorous and more often a striking representation that one is a PC and Internet professional and knows all about it.
In its beginnings, decades ago, Leetspeak was something geeks used among themselves until the general public discovered it. 5-6 years ago, PvzzY_Dlx/ov3s and similar nicknames were commonplace among young people between the ages of 12 and 17, and now the high has leveled off again, so that I hardly see LS anymore.
#isso!
The use of the hashtag on Facebook is sometimes a use of the hashtag (#) as an emoticon , or goes beyond the emoticon. The original meaning, i.e. that the hashtag connects content, takes a back seat here. The highlighted word itself should gain meaning here. It doesn't have to be just one word, you can also use entire sentences in this form. The usage in this case always has a slightly ironic undertone. You can let your creativity run wild here (''#ichweisssachen!)
The best-known representatives of their guild are #isso and #mussmanwissen . These are deliberately written ironically at the end of statements and thus clearly show that the previous content is not a completely serious statement, or that previous content is being satirized.
Words that are placed between asterisks are similar in use, although pure verbal forms are often used here to describe a prevailing state. Examples of this are *laugh*, *duck* or *happy*
Healthy mix
Using sentiment labels always requires that various recipients understand them. It would therefore make sense to work with means that no one understands or to bombard the recipient with signs that are exaggerated or inappropriate. At the same time, you should always take into account how much the recipient responds to mood indicators, as many people generally reject emoticons, hashtags or other stylistic devices and instead rely on clearly formulated expression.
And at the end we don't want to withhold this nice ode from you!
Author: Andre, #derwointernatimimikamaist
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