Grammar5Oh!

Emoticons. We've all used them, unfortunately. And for most people, myself included, adding an emoticon at the end of a text or IM is a habit. I do it without thinking.
Sure, emoticons were cool when someone first found out that a colon and a parenthesis combined could make a cute little smiley face, but now it's gone too far.
Ok, I was inspired to do this post because I was cleaning my bathroom and I found an old piece of notebook paper in my medicine cabinet, and after I had unwrinkled it, I realized what it was. A long time ago, at the beginning of the school year, we were sitting in health class and I hand wrote a blog post all about the emoticon :S.
Here, I'll tell you what it said:
:S... Has anyone ever really understood this emoticon? It makes NO sense, I mean, what kind of face is that? I, nor anyone that I know, can put their lips in the form of a capital S. Literally, I mean, can you make that face?
COME ON!

(And then Shelly wrote)

I will find somebody that can do it and get a picture for proof!

(That's the end)

To this day, Shu still hasn't gotten me a picture...
But anyways (and yes Marisa, I'm using the word anyways. haha), starting today, at this very second, I'm going to try to use emoticons less, because they aren't cute anymore, they're just something we do out of habit. So, if there's no purpose in doing it, why should we?
What do you think? COMMENT! :P Gasp, I used one... :( CRAP! I did it again....