Emoticons

Most people would probably recognize those little smiley faces that are created by combining a colon, a dash & parenthesis, which looks like

This smiley face and its “siblings” are called emoticons since they’re a textual way of expressing emotions. There are many other emoticons, and below are just a fun handful.

In addition to emoticons, there are acronyms like “LOL” for “laughing out loud,” which can help you communicate. If you’d like to see more of these fun communication tools, refer to Arlene Rinaldi’s, “The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette - Index.”

Bummer Smiley; a little sad Wink, Wink, know what I mean????

:-X my lips are sealed Laughing or a big grin

:-* *SMACK* a Kiss Ho Hum - a bored smiley

:-> Feeling a bit sarcastic?? :-’) Tongue In Cheek

>;-) or >:-) Feeling a little diabolic? |-D Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ho, Ho, Ho….

:-[ Depressed Smiley :-O WOW! A surprised Smiley

Grumpy :-& Tongue Tied

:-@ “I Swear” :-p I’m a dope

grin IMHO in my humble opinion

BTW by the way WRT with respect to

ROTFL rolling on the floor laughing TTFN ta-ta for now!

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