07.13.08
Emoticons
Today’s IM tools not only covered the exchange of text chat, but also supported by embedding cartoon-style (animated) emoticons or smiley into messages. Emoticon is the emotion “facial” expression that represented through the use of certain characters on the computer keyboard.
It is icon of certain character embedded in plain text that intended to convey an emotion. The emoticon, sometimes, can be part as smiley. Smiley is another irregular form of communicating that has arisen uniquely in the worlds of electronic post. It looks like
or sometimes :). Smiley is attached to soften blows, convey irony, or fill an otherwise embarrassing gap. Smiley is one small member of a whole family of ‘Emoticons’.