Social network tips

Despite all interesting options and applications can offer its main purpose is still to make your communication as interesting and entertaining as it is possible. Many years ago Facebook was a small social network where college students could chat and keep in touch with their mates. Times change as well as Facebook but the Chat still occupies one of the leading positions among the most used .

To spice up their or chat conversations and make them more emotional and personal users apply the so-called Facebook emoticons or smileys which are similar to usual smileys you can use in instant messengers like ICQ or SKYPE. All Facebook emoticons are titled according to their shortcuts you can find in the Chat Box on this social network.

If you are a beginner on Facebook and still don’t get it how other users apply these Facebook emoticons and insert their codes while chatting, read further and you will learn how to do this.

At first let’s focus on a definition of Facebook emoticons codes. Usually a smiley or an emoticon is a cute picture of a face expressing different emotions like happiness, shyness, anger or boredom and many others. The official title to such images is “emoticons” but people still call them “smileys” because initially instant messengers could offer only few emoticons looking like yellow faces that smiled or frowned according to a user’s mood. And initially virtual smileys spring from 1970s when a smiling face was used as a logo of State Mutual Life Assurance of Worcester (MA, USA). Since those times and till nowadays people use this symbol to express their happiness or positive thoughts and when approve something. Right now, there exist few hundreds or even more of various emoticons expressing all human emotions and reflecting some life processes or popular characters and events.

Now you are quite aware what are Facebook emoticons and the short history of their appearance in the Facebook Chat. It is a high time to teach you how to use these emoticons in your chatting process so you could express your feeling with cute smiling faces or emphasize something important illustrating this by various emoticons.

First of all we should warn you that you can’t operate with all those smileys you have seen in ICQ or Microsoft Messenger (that have more than 200 variants of different emoticons) on Facebook and will have to use a limited amount of emoticons. Facebook developers work on this problem, but still there are for now only few dozens of smiley codes you can use to communicate and chat with your friends by means of the Facebook Chat.

Below you can find the examples of the most widespread Facebook emoticons and their smiley codes people insert in their chat conversations. By typing a consequent combination of letters and special signs you can get a certain emoticon eventually:

• Toothy Grin Face –

• Wink Face –

• Open Mouth Gasp – :-O

• Frowning Face –

• Face Sticking Tongue Out –

• Kissing Emoticon – :-*

• Angry Face-  >:-(

• Doubts –  :-\

• Crying Face- : -(

• Angel –  O:-)

• Heart – <-3

In addition we want to say that even such a little amount of emoticons for the Facebook Chat still can give you a chance to express your emotions in a funny way without typing in words what exactly do you feel. Communicate and learn more smiley codes to make chatting on Facebook even more interesting.