Social Networking has begun to accelerate noticeably in the past few years. From ICARUS to Facebook, it’s a climb towards… well, what is it climbing towards? Total telepathic immersion?

I bet when you saw that title you thought this might be some sort of rambling, epic post. Or a deeper insight into something profound… Well, probably not. It’s more likely to be some meandering thought train that peters out sometime before it really even resolves.

Is the Singularity approaching? Will we suddenly have HoloDeck-like powers and morph and twist our surroundings into whatever we want? That’s not really part of this post either.

No, the sideways expressions are the strange language accents we now use in text based communications: emoticons.

It’s kind of like hand gesturing or eyebrow raising. It accents our instant-messaging, text-rich, communications. Without it we might not know someone was just poking fun.

And WTF is that expression of surprise, like LOL, it too accents. But, hell, if you are reading this you already know all that. I don’t have Followers that aren’t at least that initiated.

Live long and prosper.