Smiley Face Emoticons

Created by maxhurley999 on Monday, July 05, 2010

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I'meters sure you have seen, and probably even made use of a smiley or emoticon a minimum of once in your internet experience. Whether or not its been an actual picture, or simply a series of characters like:-), you've seen it! You may be stunned to find out how and why these "smileys" have evolved in online communication. Well, it should be noted that psychologists have discovered that 90% of human communication is non-verbal (that is most likely not stunning). A ton of communication is perceived through body language, tone, gestures, etc. On the internet, whether it's in an exceedingly forum, blog, email, or instant messenger chat, there's no mechanism to convey these "non verbal" signals. Hence, smileys! Smileys and emoticons are made use of to confer emotion regardless of what it's, sarcasm, jokes, anger, disappointment, bashfulness, playful, etc.
The 1st noted emoticon ever noted is ":-J" which represents tongue in cheek. Today, smiley face symbols and emoticons became very standard in digital communication and have evolved from simple character sequences to easy static pictures and nowadays three-dimensional animated smileys. You may see approval for smileys in all modern email suppliers (example: Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail) and all instant messenger chat applications (example: MSN messenger, AOL messenger, yahoo messenger, Skype).
Emoticons have truly evolved from their origin. Today, it is not uncommon for people (hopefully adults solely) to be searching for and using "adult smileys"! There also are "smiley creators" which permit you to style and produce your possess smileys (see links at bottom). Mysteriously, consistent with information provided by Google, smileys aren't as fashionable as they once were some years ago. The sharp drop in people asking for smileys online happened around the same time as the the US economic crisis happened in the autumn of 2008, but we tend to can not conclude that this is often a causal relationship from this observation alone. Who knew there was such a deep history for something as straightforward as smiley face clip art? Cool!
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