The human face is designed with fine spindle muscles that convey meaning with even the slightest movement and alteration of sound and this helps us communicate.
With the event of forums such as this emoticons don't come anywhere close to conveying the subtly of emotive expression face to face communication allows - and yet, even face to face, people fail to communicate.
It's amazing that we're able to communicate as well as we do, especially online.
I always try to keep this in mind while I'm online. I thought I just share that...
Gosh you are so nice.