Facebook smileys

Facebook smileys

Why are Facebook chat smilies not shown?

This is a puzzler that has definitely long puzzled people who enjoy using social networking websites. Why, if there are cool features such as emoticons available, would Facebook not tell people how to use them? The real solution is clear – if you tell users how to paste them you fill up the user interface and make it messy and more hard to read. You also would face a more clogged and less easy to read site – something that FB above all has been trying to get rid of with their site. It totally sets them apart, and makes them special. In fact, it’s a quite realistic take on creating a website.

Tell me which different different Smileys for Facebook are possible?

There are a crazy number of emotions available for people to incorporate, but unfortunately users can’t incorporate them in your Facebook status message or on the walls of other Facebook users. Now, the sole way to see these Smilies for Facebook is to use Facebook’s chat function (which you can locate in the bottom right of your screen, in the new ‘Facebook bar’ that can be seen when you log in to FB).

This here is only a small introduction to smileys, in the future I will tell you a bit more on the subject of the ones that are possible and what to do in order to use them in your chat box!

I found a Witty Facebook status!

Example: Vacancy:Telepath: – you know where to apply.

It seems like every tv show these days has someone in it who can read minds, thoughts, bend spoons or generally know what you are thinking. That means that your amusing Facebook status should try to reflect this trend, so why not start with this really funny one-liner? Some people could use a bit more telepathy in their life – I remember a friend of mine was trying to get a new job and wanted to call a business to arrange an interview, but she in fact called her current boss’s mobile phone by mistake! What is the opposite of being able to read someone’s mind?

it’s so brilliant, right?! Well anyway I had it as my Facebook status for about twenty five minutes and then suddenly seven people pressed the ‘like’ button! I couldn’t believe my eyes! I had to go back and check, but they were all commenting on my witty Facebook status! I was so happy, I could have cried.

In the future I’m excited about which style of emoticons Facebook will choose to add to their growing list of emoticons, but it seems that they really take their time and develop them before releasing. I think that makes the smileys on Facebook just a tiny bit more special, which is a really good thing overall for the company.

Anyway, I’m going back to bed – if you need more information on the the emoticon, click here -> Penguin smiley Facebook chat!

The sunglasses or ‘cool’ emoticon is unique, because it can tell people that either you are feeling good, or they are looking good. I’m not convinced which one is the default meaning for the cool smiley, but I tend to use it infrequently so i think that it probably means something special.

Chat smileys

Finally, my favourite is the wide smile smiley! On MSN the wide smile is and it has become my ‘default’ smile. In fact, the normal smiley on MSN and Yahoo Chat is kind of weak compared to the big mouth guy. I only ever use the small mouth smiley if I want the person to think that I am smiling but NOT very enthusiastic! Weird huh? I’ll check in more later on and talk about my other favourite chat smileys!

What do they all have in common? Chat emticons of course! They’re a way of communicating with other people, without having to find the exact word or phrase every time. Sometimes I like to have whole conversations with my friends and ONLY use emoticons!

I first started using emoticons when I was 16. We used AOL at home (my mum got it free from her job at a bank) so we would log on and use their AIM chat program. It was revolutionary! I remember some early chatroom software also used emoticons, but chat slowly died out to be replaced with IM. I think that chat might have been a bit too dangerous or something. Anyway, instant messengers were the future, and emoticons changed with them.

MSN is the world leader in chat, and their emoticons are known all over the world. The wink, the shades guy…all of them are completely synonymous with chatting. Facebook chat has recently brought in a lot of emoticons, but I’m not sure whether they will take off because of their ease of use. We’ll see.

Anyway, I hope I can keep you informed about chat emoticons and smileys – we’ll see!