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Msn Emoticons

May 25, 2009 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 1 Comment 
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What are MSN emoticons or smileys? The necessity to render emotions in written words while still keeping the style casual led to the appearance of smileys or emoticons that are simple combinations of regular keyboard characters. They are used in different forms of communication involving the computer, such as: email and instant messages. Among the most popular, smiling symbols represent the first MSN emoticons introduced, that are common to other web services. The smiling faces represent a substitute for the face-to-face casual encouraging smile, but lots of other things can be implied depending on the context.

msn messenger emoticons

Yahoo, Google and MSN offer lists with emoticons to be used in conversations or in emails, and all the symbols turn into real icons once they are selected and integrated in the message. These emoticons are the graphical rendering of an emotion through an icon. Hence the name emoticon. Hundreds of these emoticons are being used, whether they are MSN emoticons or other emoticons. The idea of using these symbols is to emphasize the writer’s feelings, emotions and, also, to do it in a funny way.

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There is no apparent difference in meaning between emoticons and smileys The tendency seems to be for the Europeans to use the term emoticons, while Americans tend to call the same things smileys. Anyway, messenger users often call them MSN emoticons, MSN smileys or Yahoo smileys. There are huge numbers of sites that give away free smileys, of which  Smiley Central smileys are the most popular.

MSN messenger gives its users some free emoticons but it also allows you to use your own custom MSN emoticons. Lots of these symbols are the results of the fans’ imaginative creativity and have been made available for public use. The basic MSN emoticons feature allows an Internet surfer to use animated emoticons up to 50×50 pixels in size. At My Emoticons, for instance, these icons are divided into romance, girlie, bad boys, moody and other categories. They have even come up with adult emoticons and sex smilies, which, though not for everybody, are still terribly funny.

msn emoticons

Each MSN emoticon has a tag, which automatically generates a particular item. Type a colon and a right hand bracket and you’ll get a smiley. Using the opposite bracket will give you a sad face. Many other emoticons come with similar tags, and a constant Internet user can learn them quickly. For those that are not so easy to remember, use the drop down menu included in the chat window. Like this, MSN emoticons will be just a click away.

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  1. KonstantinMiller on July 7th, 2009 12:07 am
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