"Emoticons hint at age: someone who uses :-) is probably 10 years older than someone who uses :). People using 8-) are even older."
Analysis by Bluefin, discussed in “A Social-Media Decoder” in the Nov/Dec 2011 Technology Review.
I realized, while reading this, that I once ate a tremendous amount of sushi with friends at the restaurant after which Bluefin’s named.
It’s amazing and perhaps disappointing that we’re using such cutting edge technology to better sell TV ads, but I’m hopeful more meaningful applications will emerge.
"… surely something must lie behind not just Muzak in dull or tedious places anymore but now also actual TV in waiting rooms, supermarkets’ checkouts, airports’ gates, SUVs’ backseats. Walkmen, iPods, BlackBerries, cell phones that attach to your head. This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can’t think anyone really believes that today’s so-called ‘information society’ is just about information. Everyone knows (again, whether consciously or not) it’s about something else, way down."
#information society
#smartphones
#tv
