Recently on the #duckduckgo IRC channel (freenode), Getty had been using some links to pictures and videos as extended emoticons. They worked so well IMHO that I asked him to enumerate the ones he uses frequently in the following guest post. I realize that some of them cut across the Nerds, we need to have a talk message (which I completely agree with), but others are just useful (e.g. opinion, double face palm, Jeopardy). I figured others might have a similar list and would want to share.
This is a guest post by Torsten Raudssus (@raudssus), who is a software developer specialized for social media, high load websites and IRC.
Sometimes, it is hard to make a proper communication over the Internet. Sometimes, you need something more then just words to bring your emotions to the communication partner. For this case I use a specific set of pictures, which really covers all the cases you normally need! I keep them always in my Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar:
Images
- opinion
Yeah, well. The people have many opinions... they should stay to their opinions... sure ;)
- invalid
And of course arguments are not always valid. It's not easy to show someone that he is wrong, a kitten always helps!
- turtle
If your friend is again showing you not what you wanted to see, if a sad face is not enough, then... THEN you need the turtle! (Trust me, it works!)
- facepalm
Ok, if it all already happened, and if it all failed, then its just the last option to give the facepalm!
- orly?
Owl's are just cool :)
Videos
- ualuealu
This one is a very general one. You can use it after your customer has called you, you can use it to end any discussion and showing that the end of your brain capacity is reached, or just to show that your communication partner has not any of those capacity!
- Jeopardy
Yes. Of course, you need the Jeopardy theme. Internet is waiting, Internet is always about waiting, and especially if you are software developer, waiting is our daily business. It is also helpful to play it while you wait on the phone, cause if the other side gets back to the phone, he will first listen to YOUR waiting music!
- Warteschleife
If your communication partner is german, you could use this german version for the Jeopardy-effect :).
