Drawing with Letters P eople always keep in touch. But while many people who were reluctant to write letters now send large volume of electronic correspondence, it is said people have grown away from the warmth of handwritten messages.
Writers can show everything from pleasure and sadness to anger and embarrassment.
W ith the small screens on cell phones, it's easier to get the point across by using a simple picture than by writing a long sentence. Icons can also draw a reader's eye to your message to make sure it doesn't get lost in the in-box. I t's not just cell phone users who are hooked on the icons. Anyone with a plain old computer keyboard can get in on the fun. One 12 year old living in Tokyo, meanwhile, has taken the emoticon idea a step further and has been creating electronic works of art using not only letters and symbols found in English and Japanese but also in Greek and Russian.