Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Some Of The Things You Should Know About Free Smileys

By Lila Bryant


For the past years of telecommunication, it has been tested that messages are more likely to be read and understood when emotions from the sender or writer is expressed in images, rather than in plain boring texts and narratives. Free smileys are just one of the ways to express someone's emotion in a message.

These rounded images that initially came in color yellow break the monotony and boredom that the reader might experience just by looking at the textual message he or she is about to read. Website developers, who are most probably a team composed of visual artists, created a website specially designed to provide these emoticons.

These emoticons aren't just characters you key in semi colons and colons followed by a closed or open parenthesis. Enhancements on these characters have been brought in as consumers find it exciting to integrate additional characters in the text apart from letters.

Nowadays, as the social media dominates most of the communications as well as online connections among consumers, it is essential to imply messages using images to represent words could most times be misunderstood. The invention of animated emoticons, aka smiley faces or emoticons is often used to convey feelings and emotions, perhaps without seeing the exact facial expression of the sender of the message.

These sequence of printable characters are fun to behold or make the the reader feel the information the sender is seeking to put across. There're many of these characters you can find online. They're normally categorized, for example emotions and actions they're trying to show.

Some of the characters are eating & drinking emoticons, devil emoticons, dancing emoticons, cool emoticons, confused emoticons, computer emoticons, emoticons working or doing their chores, character, bouncing, blushing, angel emoticons, ashamed, angry and colored emoticons. It is possible to also get emoticons with flags, farting emoticons, excited emoticons and sleeping emoticons. There're also zodiac signs emoticons, violent emoticons, whacky faces, talking, sporty emoticons, traveling, thinking emoticons, laughing, hugging, sad emoticons, greeting emoticons, happy emoticons, and animated emoticons.

There are also websites wherein you can create your own personal and customized emoticons. If you know basic html designs and some character threading online, you can create your own free smiley and have you friends use them in their forums and comments. You can also search for emoticons already available online. All you have to do is open a website of emoticons and type the description of the smiley you are looking for on the search tab and the site will search the right smiley for you - for free!

These emoticons are widely used in social media forums, comments boxes, articles, and other online media. They commonly come in GIF format, some are static, some are animated but they are all fun and are easy to add to forum posts and sigs, social networking sites. If you want to have a vault of these emoticons on your own computer, you can also download and save them on. They are also available for downloads for your smartphone.




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