How to Make Emoticons on Facebook

Emoticons, also known as smiley faces, add interest and personality to otherwise plain text by invigorating your thoughts with easy-to-see emotion. Messages and notes on Facebook are more interesting with smiley faces. Emoticons can express happiness, amusement, anger, sadness, shock, mischievousness and even tears. Liven up your thoughts and communicate emotion with a few keystrokes. Engage readers with smiley faces, frowns or even a furled eyebrow. It's quick and easy to do.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Write a sentence that will go well next to an emoticon. Any sentence that expresses emotion-be it anger, sadness, happiness or shock-can be accompanied by an emoticon.

2. Choose an emoticon that goes well with the sentence. The following is a list of emoticons:
   Happy :) - Colon followed by a parentheses
   Very happy =) - Equals sign followed by a parentheses
   Grinning :D - Colon followed by an uppercase d
   Cat smiling ^_^ - Shift and press six, underscore, shift and press six
   Wink smile ;) - Semicolon followed by a parentheses
   Goofy smile 8) - Eight followed by a parentheses
   Tongue sticking out :p - Colon followed by a lowercase "p"
   Smiling devil 3:) - Three followed by a colon and parentheses
   Smiling angel 0:) - Zero followed by a colon and parentheses
   Angry >:( - Hold shift and press period, followed by a colon and parentheses
   Pouting X( - Uppercase "X " followed by parentheses
   Shocked =0 - Equals sign followed by a zero
   Skeptical =/ - Equals sign followed by a forward slash
   Embarrassed =X - Equals sign followed by an uppercase "X"
   Devious smile >:) - Hold shift and press period, followed by a colon and parentheses
   Tear :'( - Colon, followed by apostrophe, followed by parentheses
   Frustrated X( - Uppercase "X" followed by a parentheses
   Love <3 - Hold shift and press the comma button, followed by a "3"

3. Insert two spaces after the period following the appropriate sentence, and then insert the emoticon. Here is an example of an emoticon in a sentence: "I've been really sick for about a week. :( The doctor says I have the flu."

4. If desired, insert a nose into any of the emoticons by inserting a dash between the eyes and the mouth, as shown in the emoticons below:
   Happy :-)
   Very happy =-)
   Grinning :-D
   Wink smile ;-)
   Goofy smile 8-)
   Tongue sticking out :-p
   Smiling devil 3:-)
   Smiling angel 0:-)
   Angry >:-(
   Pouting X-(
   Shocked =-0
   Skeptical =-/
   Embarrassed =-X
   Devious smile >:-)
   Tear :'-(
   Frustrated X-(

5. Enter two spaces following the smiley face before beginning the next sentence.