SAN JOSE, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Jose Bureau) – There’s an emoji for all sorts of emotions on Facebook — sad, happy, angry, being gay — but none for being sarcastic.
Finally, the social networking giant is giving in to requests for a sarcastic emoticon so that netizens don’t have to explain that their comment or post is meant to taunt, criticize or humorize (is there such a word?).
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sought the assistance of The Adobo Chronicles’ readers and followers to help design or identify an emoticon that would best represent sarcasm.
Pictured are some potential sarcasm emojis, but our readers can always design and submit other proposals.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – It’s been the hush-hush talk of the town lately. Now it’s confirmed: the online news source, Rappler, has dissolved as a corporation and has been reconstituted as Limited Partnership (Ltd.).
The partners? Maria Ressa, former Rappler CEO, and Pia Ranada, former Rappler star reporter.
Rappler has been struggling to engage netizens and maintain a profitable level of readership. It has failed to raise its P5 million goal under an online fundraising.
Everyone saw it coming.
But Ressa doesn’t give up easily. She has partnered with Ranada to establish a minor news online source which they are naming R&R (Ressa & Ranada).
Today, R&R unveiled its new logo — still reminiscent of the old Rappler.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Remember when Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque hopped onto an MRT train to commiserate with Metro Manila commuters?
Well, he liked it so much that he’s doing it again on January 7, in observance of World No Trousers Day. It is a day when commuters — from San Francisco to London — drop their trousers while riding the trains to work.
Roque told The Adobo Chronicles that he prepared long and hard for this, shedding a lot of weight in order to look good for the cameras. (See photo for artist’s rendition of Roque sans his trousers.)
Members of the Senate and House of Representatives will be joining Roque in this once-in-a-lifetime commute.
SAN JOSE, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Jose Bureau) – There’s an emoji for all sorts of emotions on Facebook — sad, happy, angry, being gay — but none for being sarcastic.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Remember when Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque hopped onto an MRT train to commiserate with Metro Manila commuters?
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