Emoticons have significantly revolutionized the way people communicate via different forums more popularly in emails, instant messengers, social networking sites, mobile phones and similar devices. Emoticons are sometimes referred to as Smileys since the graphics can be used similarly. The 'smiley' or the 'smiley face' is a stylized representation of a smiling human face with the most simple smiley being a yellow circle with two small dots representing eyes.
Emoticons are emotional icons or graphics; they are used to give a visual of the writer's current mood, emotions and attitude during conversations, instant or otherwise. They can also be used to enhance written words or as acronyms which makes them extremely helpful in situations where words are not sufficient to communicate the message. Emoticons depict the expression on the writer's face or their tone of voice in a lifelike way; they help to unmistakably set the perspective of messages.
primarily, emoticons are line of characters that can be found on keyboard shortcuts. The most familiar emoticons are MSN and Yahoo Messenger Emoticons. apart from Yahoo Messenger Emoticons, there is also Yahoo Messenger Hidden Emoticons that are not established in the emoticon menu, and Yahoo Messenger Hidden Emoticons that can be downloaded and added to the accessible emoticon menu.
Free animated emoticons are generally available online. These online sites provide the option to download emoticons specific to Yahoo, MSN and others. Messengerfreak.com offers animated emoticons for MSN Messenger users. These are available in categories such as Animals, Girls Emoticons, Boys Emoticons, Cartoons and Words.
Freesmileys.org have thousands of animated smiley faces mostly presented in GIF format. With a choice from more than fifty categories smileys may be static or animated and are easy to add to forum posts, social networking sites namely MySpace or Facebook, MSN messenger, Yahoo Messenger, personal websites, blogs, email and more! Other websites for free animated emoticons include msnemoticons.org which has a library of 10,000 emoticons, smilies and other similar products.
Most handy tool to insert and manage animated emoticon This website offers assorted free smilies on your personal homepage, and anywhere online.is an animated cursor that features a Boston Terrier who blinks,wiggles his ears,Add some colors in your special occasions through the magical touch of animated smileys.
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