Despite the limitations of the written word, human authors have been producing written works with profound emotional impact for thousands of years. And without emoticons!
It's true it requires concentration and imagination to read Shakespeare (with full impact) than it takes see his plays performed.
Still, a vast emotional "punch" can be contained in the written word, just requiring a bit of effort to extract.
Just a thought: if said work is of substantial length then you have enough context/space to express all the subtleties by other means. In case of the message limited to 140 characters or email one-liner you need some crutches to the same. Are we trading 5 lines of email for one ":)"?
Despite the limitations of the written word, human authors have been producing written works with profound emotional impact for thousands of years. And without emoticons!
It's true it requires concentration and imagination to read Shakespeare (with full impact) than it takes see his plays performed.
Still, a vast emotional "punch" can be contained in the written word, just requiring a bit of effort to extract.