I remember asking on talkcity "why does everyone add colon pea to the end of their lines?"

Luckily I was not exposed to graphical smileys in a chat program until running the new version of their java chat, and that was for a short while compared to the nonsmiley one.

The only smiley in IM messages I can support is (@) and that's for personal reasons.

I like IRC because you don't have to worry about them turning to images. Straight up emoticons yo.

:joey2:

When i was in seventh grade, I had to take a Literacy Skillz class. It involved writing a journal, and since this was at the start of my irc addiction, I asked my teacher if I could use emoticons in it. And I did. Oh man.