Emoticons for Chat Rooms, Forums, Instant Messengers and Email

What is an Emoticon?

An emoticon is a facial expression pictorially represented by punctuation and letters, usually to express a writer’s mood. In web forums, instant messengers, SMS messages and online games, text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be called "Emoticons."

Emoticons are emotional graphics - visual ways to express the way you feel when words alone just aren't enough. People use emoticons when they're messaging with friends to show them how they really feel. 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".

On today's Internet emoticons have expanded beyond simple cartoon facial expressions and tex images to a variety of still or moving images. Some of these graphical emoticons do not actually represent faces or emotions; for example, an "emoticon" showing a drum might be used to represent music. Further, some instant messaging software is designed to play a sound upon receiving certain emoticons.

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