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Posted By: jay behrens

I am fairly decent writer, but most people today have short attention spans. If you get over verbose, they will start to skim and eventually quit reading. This is why newpapers articles are written in reverse pyramid form. You get the general scope of the subject right away and more and more detail if you care to read on, which most people don't. Hence the reason newspaper articles are written this way.

Using emoticons allows a person to shorten up what they are writing and convey the sense of emotion that they want to get across in a quick and dirty fashion.

Jay

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