Is Anyone Else Annoyed with the New Symbols?

Who, me?

What's the big deal? Just 'cause I'm all tarted up like a jezebel.

I know, it's dumb. It just cracks me up, 'cause it's so over the top. I already made the mom formerly known as Prince reference.

Thanks for noticing. :)

To each their own ;)

I'M not into it, but whatever!! It's the mazillion mom's posting question after question after question on how to do it that's getting to me... it's been posted at LEAST 10 times in 4 days ;)

Wing dings baby! Copy and paste :)

I'm just upset there isn't a pirate symbol. I want a hook or something.

It kind of reminds me of middle school/high school when a select few girls start doing something and then OMG!! Like, we TOTALLY have to start doing that too!!!!! LOL! Its all in good fun!!

I do have to laugh that suddenly lots and lots of screen names have symbols in them. To each their own. I'm keeping my boring name :-)

Hahaha, after all the hype, I was definitely wondering how long it would take for someone to say they hated the symbols!!

OMG Im so happy that someone finally commented on this. For the last few days all I keep seeing is ppl asking about the symbols and how they can get them too and its driving me bananas
So thank you

I think it is cute. Lots of people are insinuating it is childish or immature. But to me it reminds me of Tattoos.

Once you start it is hard to stop.. Of course you notice I do not have any symbols for the same reason I do not have any Tattoos.. I am too fickle and cannot decide which symbols I want to use and know I would change my mind.. Same with a Tattoo, I have never been able to decide what I would want on my body for the rest of my life or even where I would place it.. So I will just go with.. "I do not mark the Temple."

But no it does not bother me.. It actually made me laugh when people told
ℜ❀$eღud❧ she looked like she was wearing a Wedding Dress at the grocery store. You go girl..
You do know in Austin... Our slogan is "Keep Austin Weird" I guess here it is "Keep Mamasource fun!"

Sorry, but it seems like something my daughter would want to do. The same for feathers in the hair.

haha, I think they are cute. we were in a rut and needed some new accessories ;)
Once you stop having fun, you get old and cranky :)

Lol... welcome to my life.

My son has been getting into hacking for some time. So it's really lucky that I speek leet. But, yeah, I spend at least an hour a day, everyday, reading this stuff.

Which can be as easy as

MY 50N h42 833n 9377iN' In70 h4x0RiN' PH0r 50m3 7im3. 50 i7'2 r34LLY luCkY 7H@ i 5p33k l337. 8U7, Y34H, I 5p3ND @ l3457 4n h0ur 4 D4y, 3V3rYd4Y, r34dIn' 7hI2 L3W7.

or as complex as

|\/|¥ $0|\| |-|4$ ß33|\| 93771|\|9 1|\|70 |-|4(|{1|\|9 ƒ0® $0|\/|3 71|\/|3. $0 17'$ ®34££¥ £µ(|{¥ 7|-|47 1 $p33|{ £337. ßµ7, ¥34|-|, 1 $p3|\|Ð 47 £34$7 4|\| |-|0µ® 4 Ð4¥, 3\/3®¥Ð4¥, ®34Ð1|\|9 7|-|1$ $7µƒƒ.

Well then, I see how it is.

tehehe

:(

Changes are often a bit hard to adjust to at first. I'm not 'annoyed,' but maybe a little alarmed; if these symbols are overdone, they will no longer be unique signatures, and it will become harder to recognize 'familiar' names. I'm a graphic designer and former sign designer, and have studied for years what communicates and is memorable.

One or two symbols in a name might enhance and actually help me notice/remember certain posters. And one or two carefully chosen symbols can actually tell me a little bit more about that mom's personality. More than that makes a name harder to read. A whole string of symbols will be unique and recognizable for awhile unless quite a few posters start doing the same thing, and then, at least to me, all those names will just look like tossed salad sprinkled on the page.

Especially for me, perhaps, because as I've aged, my eyes tend to be jumpy when I try to focus on small detail. (With this problem, it's even hard for me to make it through a long post that is one long 'paragraph,' without line breaks that allow the eye or brain to pace and refresh.)

I don't really care what screen name a person uses as long as it's readable and I can recognize it. I get a good feel for person's personality by reading what they write. But there are quite a number of moms whose posts I seek out because I enjoy them.

It's a new toy and people just have to play with it.
It'll calm down in a few days.
Either that or questions about it will start being deleted as repetitive content.

There are about a zillion fonts of symbols and MOST of those have about 4 variations depending on lc, caps, shift cap, control shift cap.....this is just the beginning!
Personally, I like it.
I think it jazzes us up a bit...
(I thought ℜ❀$eღud❧ symbol-name was quite readable! Can you see it now? lol)

YES!!!

I like Theresa N.'s. Subtle, simple ones are cute.

Too many is just annoying.

ℜ❀$eღud❧ - are you Rosebud? Just trying to figure that one out :)

Goodness, I haven't use wingdings in forever!

No, kind of entertaining. Glad to see Yarmatey found one pirat related!

I agree with Rachel D....or people can just read through the questions before posting yet another question about how to make them. :-)

For the most part all I see are a bunch of little boxes, so yeah...it's kinda annoying. If I actually saw the *symbols*, then probably not :)