Chapter3: Emoticons and Smileys

Introduction

     Emoticons(or smileys)is a sideways face made up of certain types of letters, or symbols, toexpress emotions, or to shorten a phrase. For example to make smily face you need to type "SHIFT" key with the" ; KEY" , and press the "SHIFT" key with the "9 KEY "  to make a smiley face like this  :)  .It's so easy!!!



Emoticon or Smiey?
When you see one of these two words, think of this below.
  
Emoticons=Smileys

The meaning: These words are just the same!!!  No matter what is called, emoticons and smiles does the same thing.


Examples
       Hereare some examples of similes (or emoticons).

Basic Smiles:

Smile       :-) Grin       :-D Frown         :-(
Wink        ;-) Kiss       :-* Awe/Yawn      :-O
Serious     :-| Angry     >:-( Left handed   (-:
Big Frown     :-< Crying     :`-( .

Midgets
       A shorter waytotype smileys is to make midget smileys. They are smileys without adash (or nose). Example:

Smile          : )  Sad               :(

Bookmarks
Other Sites with smiley/emoticon information:

Smiles Unlimited
    A site with 1,000s ofemoticons!!!!! It probarly take 3 days to get them all!
http://www.czweb.com/smilies.htm

Internet Smileys.
   A bit outdated, only been updated since 1997! But, it is a good site to see some smileys.
http://members.aol.com/bearpage/smileys.htm

Note:Websites that are metioned may have been moved,  deleted,  or not accesible. Contact me if this happens.



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