How The Use Of Emoticons And Stickers Influence The Intimacy Experience In The Interpersonal Communication Oline

Emoticon is one of the most popular ways to communication on the Internet.Emoticon works as nonverbal symbols,which convey a person's emotion,feeling and attitude,when people talk through the Internet.People connect with each other via communication,and feel intimacy in this process.Nonverbal symbol is a key factor in intimacy process.This paper researches whether the different use of emoticon(only use words/ only use icon emoticon/ words+icon emoticon/ only use stickers / words+stickers)would make a difference to intimacy experience.The objects of this paper are the system emoticon of Wechat,called icon emoticon,and emoticons which users download from the Wechat emoticon store or other place,called stickers.The paper researches through survey,mearsuring how sophisticated a Wechat user using emoticons and how much he or she fells about intimacy when he or she faces word and emoticons in a Wechat communication.The out coming of the research shows that when communicate on Wechat,1)using personalized sticker can produce stronger intimacy experience than using system emoticon;2)using words with emoticons can bring in stronger intimacy experience;3)people who are more skillful in using emoticons can feeling stronger intimacy when communication with emoticons,but the difference is slight.The results of the research indicates that it is a universal phenomenon that the influence of emoticons on the intimacy during the interpersonal communication.No metter the user of Wechat is good at accepting emoticon,he or she would feel more intimacy when facing emoticons,especially stickers during wechat communication.The popularity of emoticon not only recontructs the context of fact to fact communication,but also construct a new context of interpersonal communication.