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!

Well, someone has finally done it! I’ve never seen such a large list of Yahoo messenger emoticons (that is probably why Yahoo didn’t include them in the original chat program, because the emotes list is so long!). Anyway, the hidden emoticons are pretty impressive – for example:

Yahoo messenger emoticons

Alien emoticon – there are actually two alien emoticons included in the Yahoo secret emoticons list. One of them takes over another guy’s body (it’s a bit weird, you have to look at it to understand) and there’s also a green blob.

Animals – there are Yahoo monkey emoticons, cow emoticons, even a chicken! Great for budding farmers everywhere…

Cool emotions – there are some great emotion emoticons like one where the guy is wagging his finger and one where he’s putting his fingers in his ears. Pretty funny if you ask me.

So here’s the link, enjoy the Yahoo messenger emoticons!

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!