Emoticon

=Emoticon=



The most basic **Emoticon** is a series of letters, numbers, characters, and symbols that are found on a keyboard. That was the beginning of emoticons. These days there are all sorts of smiley faces, symbols, and icons that are called **Emoticons**. The original emoticon was a smiley.

"Mike Jones, who works in the systems and networking research group at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, has determined that the first smiley was posted on September 19, 1982," (Tech Target).

Emoticons are widely used in such Instant messenger services such as MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ and other messenger services. Emoticons are also used in informal email messages. =Emoticons online:=

[|www.smileycentral.com] [|www.emoticon.com]

Examples
=:-) Smile
 * -) Smile with a wink
 * -|| Mad
 * -( Sad
 * ' -( Crying
 * -)) Really happy
 * -D Big grin
 * -* A kiss
 * -o Wow! or I'm surprised
 * -| Grim
 * -P Sticking out your tongue
 * -} Embarassed smile

%*@:-( Hung over .) Keeping an eye out for you 0:-) Angel
 * -^) Tongue in cheek
 * <:-) Santa Claus


 * MSN Emoticons
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=Networked Emotion Devise=

Mauricio Melo's networked emotion devise allows people to know each others moods throughout the day with simple, glowing smiley faces and frowny faces. "Some times you would like to know how your partner is doing during the day and vice versa, especially if you spend most of your day out at work. The main idea is to use a communication channel that doesn't require an immediate response from the other part... It's a reminder once in a while during the day of each other's delayed mood state."(Melo)