How to Use Emotion Icons in Facebook

Facebook is a popular social network for those looking to keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues. In 2008, Facebook introduced its Chat function, allowing online users to chat with one another without leaving the site. One of the cool features of Facebook Chat is its support for a variety of emotion icons (better known as emoticons). If you're trying to learn how to create these emoticons, you can do so by typing certain letters or symbols into your Facebook Chat box.

Instructions

1. Create a "smiley" emoticon by typing :).

2. Type :( to display a "sad" face.

3. Enter :V to create a Pac-Man emoticon.

4. Frighten your chat buddy with a shark emoticon by typing (^^^).

5. Give your chat partner a kiss by entering :*.

6. Type 8-| to create an emoticon smiley face wearing sunglasses.

References

• Facebook Chat Emoticons: Home
• Facebook: Facebook Chat - Now We're Talking

Resources

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