With the advent of social networking, people have begun communicating their hopes, dreams and day to day minutiae to anyone with an internet connection. While this allows ones life story to be broadband-cast to potentially millions of people, certain types of communication are being left by the way side. Specifically, non verbal communication: Even more specifically, the jerk off motion. If a person elects to communicate their position on a subject via miming off, there is little doubt as to their intent, the expression of derision. Social networking relies too heavily upon the use of ambiguous acronyms to convey emotion. For instance, say I’m LMAO, am I being sincere, sarcastic or did I just start a new fad diet involving three sensible meals a day and reruns of Arrested Development?  

Now, social networking isn’t going anywhere, at least not until the internet is crashed via Chinese cyber attack. Until then we can choose to either render faux-sterbating nostalgic, or allow it to evolve. Seeing as I’ve always wanted to use Darwinian in a sentence, I propose evolution. I would like to present: The Jerkmoticon.

Example facebook status update: Just saw Clash of the Titans, i!i!i!