Top five signs "someone" is addicted to emoticons...

• They get excited about the new animated faces available with the all-new Skype 2.5. These include:
• The "call me"
• The "bear hug"
• The "green with envy"
• When forced to "rough it" without pre-generated icons, they believe the number 8 connotes nerdiness, as in:
• 8-)
• Every other chatted word is replaced with a picture. For example:
• {pizza} {thumbs up} {clock}? = Would you like pizza and, if so, when?
• They say, "Hey, a winking smiley in sunglasses is very cool!" They say it, and not in oxymoronic fun.
• The Walmart "price slashing" smiley face is suddenly sexy, very sexy. (OO, and they're having a sale on tube socks!)

P.S. and by "someone" I mean The Boyfriend
;-p