Smileys

allsmiles | 27 May, 2004 20:04

I dont think we can thank the guy who discovered emoticons and smiles enough. What started only with web-based communication read email and chat has now expanded its influence into more advanced forms like SMS.
And even real life. They have certainly added a personal dimension to plain-text mode of communication. Could we ever do with out it?

You get to know more expressions from the collection of emoticons displayed by Yahoo or MSN and countless other chat services(FH DB smiley are not really great. As for the blogs ... some are like ok but you could still do a lot better. :D ). Happy, Sad, crying, indifference, naughty, shock, surprised, sleepy, sheepish grin etc etc. There is a huge variety and so many to address each and every mood, situation. And then there are some you would prolly never encounter like this

}:^#}) - Updrafted bushy-mustached pointy nosed smiley with a double-chin.

Sometimes we model our day to day expressions based on these smileys. I even know of ppl who nick name folks "See there goes colon D" or some guy say " He perpetually has a colon greater than" (thats for a side-long glance made popular by the yahoo emoticon collection). Sometimes I too am guilty of using these kinda nicknames to describe people.

Best thing about a smiley ....allows you to say whatever you want to and then conviniently get away with it by adding a few symbols like ":)" or ";)" or ":P" at the end.

Like, all you folks who are reading this are dumb and have nothing better to do :P. :))