Why are there no emoticons in written letters?

I got to thinking, we express emotion and clarify meaning on the net by typing emoticons such as :) or O_o, why we don't we do the same thing in writing? We always had emotions and the need to clarify meaning, so why did it take the Internet for us to come up with the idea of drawing little faces?|||There are several reasons emoticons are not used in handwriting. The first is the fact that handwriting does not restrict one to using only characters available on a keyboard. In other words, if one wants a smiley face, one need only draw or doodle it. The other is that handwriting makes (or should make) one more careful about how one expresses oneself. When using computer keyboarding, it's very easy to use emoticons as a "crutch" to denote meaning, which lends itself to sloppy writing.





Read some classic literature and you'll see what I mean. There is no need for "translation" or interpretation. Good writing does not need assistance from shortcuts or add-ons.|||Emoticons are a horrible way of depicting emotion.





:) is a terrible substitute for a smily face, their are many types of smily faces, so many that little pieces of text don't do them justice.





The reason why emoticons emerged is because people who couldn't type are ruining the english language with their acronyms and gobbledygook.