This is Day 2 of Message in a Bottle, and overall I'm satisfied. One dissatisfaction with the site so far is that there are far too few Mood choices. One must select from a prepared drop-down list. Personally, I think people who need a drop-down list of mood choices to figure out and express their mood should not be allowed to journal.
Getting back to the mood choices offered by AOL.... Do you think 'hate of a thousand fiery suns' is on the list? No. dammit. Just like the choice of Emoticons, Mood choices are extremely limited. Just so you know what I'm dealing with, the prepared selection is as follows: Happy, Mischevious, Worried, Silly, Surprised, Flirtatious, Ecstatic, Frustrated, Loopy, Embarrassed, Hopeful, Anxious, Sad, Quiet, Chillin'..... See what I mean.
The more subtle or popular moods (for lifeonhold anyway) are not represented: perplexed, irritated, nonplussed, bored, despondent, hysterical, hopeless, gleeful, sullen...the list goes on and on. Hey AOL, get rid of the drop down box or add a fill-in.
ETA: nonplussed - perplexed, caused to be at a loss as to what to say or do. ok, so it's a verb, but denotes an emotional state, and hey, it's my blog!
3 comments:
non=plussed. You so right--it should be a gosh=darn fill in the Blank.
a thousand Glower/blogists can't be Wrong! I sense myself a lot of play between
Silly & Ecstatic! Ha!
could you please tell us what nonpussed means? I mean maybe nonhappyor nonticked off, but nonpussed, what is that?
Just began my journal tonight and that was the very first thing I noticed. Come on aol get with it. The range of human emotions is much much broader than those pull down choices. Glad to hear someone out there noticed it too.
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