EMOTICONS

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To add a little pizazz to your conversation, you can also use symbols called emoticons to express emotions.
You create the symbols by typing dashes, colons, semicolons, and a variety of other keystrokes that look like faces when you view them sideways.
These are some of the most popular:

:)

Smiling

:-)

Smiling, with a nose

:.)

Small-skewed-button-nosed smiley

:->

Ironic or devious smile

:-(

Frowning

:-<

Very sad

>:-(

Upset or annoyed

:-D

Laughing

:-o

Shouting

:-O

Shouting loudly

:-*

Puckering for a kiss

:-x

User's lips are sealed

:-{

User has a moustache

:-()

Big mouth (User has rambled on)

;-)

Winking

8-)

Wearing glasses

B-)

Wearing cool shades

{(:-)

Wearing a toupee

C=:-)

I'm a chef

*<:-)(

I'm Santa Claus

@>--,---

A rose

.xxooxxoo

Love (or hugs) and kisses

(-:

User is left-handed

%-)

User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hrs

:*)

User is drunk

[:]

User is a robot

8:-)

User is a little girl

:-)-8

User is a big girl

:-[

User is a vampire

:-E

User is a buck-toothed vampire

:-F

User is a buck-toothed vampire with one tooth missing

:-7

User just made a wry statement

:-*

User just ate something sour

:-ss

User drools

:-ss)

User has a cold

:'-(

User is crying

l-o

Yawning

1^o

Snoring

X-(

Dead

:'-)

User is so happy s/he is crying

:-@

User is screaming

:-#

User wears braces

:^)

User has a broken nose

K:P

User is a little kid with propeller beenie

C=}>;*{))

User is a drunk, devilish chef with a toupee in an updraft with a moustache and a double chin