So I caved in and made a separate facebook account for myself just for students at my school to be friends with me, because so many of them wouldn't stop bugging me about it. I learned quickly that most Chileans (not just kids) are obsessed with facebook, way more than any Americans I know. Little 4th graders are posting statuses about being at school with each other and then everybody likes every single status and photo that anyone else posts. Needless to say, every time I log on I am bombarded with notifications and chat messages. For most of them, their limited knowledge of English cuts us off after "Hi Maddie! How are you? What are you doing?" but if I'm lucky they will try to an online translator to send me entire sentences of mis-translated nonsense. Not that I'm complaining! I love them! And I have been learning about online slang and different emoticons. Yes, they use different emoticons! Who'da thought? They make this funny little faces using letters and a period (where the letters are the eyes and the dot is the nose). You kind of have to use your imagination; I was reallyyyy confused until someone explained it to me. For your enjoyment:
u.u (sad)
e.e (squinty? so I guess that means expectant/wary or disgusted)
n.n (happy)
So now everyone in America can start using these. You're welcome.
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