Funny Animated Smileys (Emoticons)
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What are
Emoticons or Smileys?
An emoticon,
sometimes called a smiley, is a sequence of printable characters
such as :), ^_^, or :-( or a small image that is intended to
represent a human facial expression and convey an emotion.
Emoticons are a form of paralanguage commonly used in e-mail
messages, in online bulletin boards, instant messengers, or in
chat rooms.
We can also put the above statement as, An Emoticon (or Smiley)
is a sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your
computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in e-mail, chat, SMS and
other forms of communication using computers. The most popular
emoticons are the smiling faces (smileys or smilies) that people
use to say "don't take what I just wrote too seriously". If you
don't see that it represents a smiling face, tip your head to
the left and look at it again. The colon represents the eyes,
the dash represents the nose, and the right parenthesis
represent the mouth. Many people use MSN and Yahoo, for this
reason I added a list with MSN and Yahoo emoticons. When using
these during your chat session, they will be converted to real
icons.
Graphical emoticons (small images that often automatically
replaced typed text) commonly are used instead of the older text
variants, especially on Internet forums and instant messenger
programs.
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