Originally Posted by wgscott

Oh, and for the record, I absolutely despise emoji and would like to have them permanently removed from all websites, my phone and my operating system.

Originally Posted by Jim from Boston

...I used to use smilies more until a couple years ago, I read a quote by Lance Armstrong in a sports magazine (when he was still doing endorsements, or it was an old issue in a doctor's office).

I don't recall the product [was Radio Shack], and I'm sure the quote had nothing to do with the product, but his tough-guy quote was something like: "Real men over thirty don't use smilies...period"

PPS: I googled the quote.