Facebook smileys are a fun and effective way to express emotions in messaging, enhancing communication with graphical representations of feelings. Users can easily insert smileys using shortcuts, which convert into images automatically, allowing for a casual tone in conversations. Additionally, users can expand their options by downloading extra emoticons, sounds, and other enhancements for an enriched messaging experience.

2. Facebook smileys offer a perfect opportunity to freely
express yourself or add a hint of personality to a
message shared when posting a wall post, sending an
instant message or writing a message on the popular
social networking site. A smiley is perfect way to convey
your message to readers in a casual or not so casual
manner. Whether you might be felling goofy, overjoyed,
sarcastic or out-and-out ecstatic, a smiley gives a simply
way to express yourself with a simple to understand
graphical expression.

3. Smileys are a perfect way to dress up what might otherwise
be a plain massage and are simple to learn and create
on-screen with just a few simple keystrokes. Facebook
smileys appear on-screen by typing in the easy
shortcuts/symbols. For example, if wishing to add in an
expression of sadness, it is possible to include the sad
face, which is just a matter of typing a colon and round
bracket on-screen. Those two keystrokes are then
automatically converted into a digital and fun image and
viewable by both sender and recipient.

4. By using the right emotion at the right time it is possible to
take some of the weight out of a conversation. If a
conversation seems to be getting too serious, it is often
quite simple to change the course of a conversation
back to its earlier informal state by adding in an
appropriate smiley.

5. However, as the smileys seen to go undocumented on
Facebook if can be difficult when first starting out to
remember the various text shortcuts, and to help with
this it is worthwhile searching out one of the reference
lists, which can be found on quite a few online websites.

6. Besides the standard Facebook smileys, which cleverly
cover a wide-range of emotions with a face to depict the
most popular smiling face to those depicting sorrow,
which adds up to approx. twenty-five or so, it is also
possible to download a wide variety of extras to the
computer. Such additional downloads feature more
smileys, sounds, funny winks, emoticons, glitter text, etc
to help with enhancing a messaging experience.
Facebook conversations can be a lot more fun once you
have hundreds of smileys to pick and choose from.

7. Smiley faces are known to have well pre-dated today's
modern computer usage, but as soon as the instant
messaging and email systems become so popular, the
every growing collection of smiley faces have taken a
prominent position in online communication.

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