Communication: "Smileys or Emoticons"

@Shavkat (141906)

Philippines

January 3, 2019 7:33am CST

In cyberspace, people communicate in the form of using 'smileys or emoticons.' We often use them here on myLot. It is like using our facial expressions to show personal feelings to the receivers. For the receivers, they can able to understand the usage of them with no buts and whys. As long as they are familiar with the meanings. The common smileys were being used are as follows:

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@avi256 (8515)

• Pune, India

3 Jan 19

I use 3-4 smileys commonly mainly trying to put forward the emotion of my post.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

3 Jan 19

I do think that would be good to show our good or bad intentions.

Courtney Dutton

@MommyOfEli2013 (89451)

• Rupert, Idaho

4 Jan 19

I use the same four pretty much. I might use the cheers one, or something like that occasionally.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

4 Jan 19

I do agree with you. We can still use the other emoticons depending on what we feel on something.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

5 Jan 19

@MommyOfEli2013 I agree. I think some emoticons are not useful.

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Courtney Dutton

@MommyOfEli2013 (89451)

• Rupert, Idaho

4 Jan 19

@Shavkat Yes that is very true! There are quite a few I don't even use here though

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Jan 19

I use the four you've shown most of all but I always like it when I can use one I don't often get the chance to.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

3 Jan 19

It is nice to use them, especially if we don't need to say more about certain topics here.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

4 Jan 19

@JudyEv I agree. We can able to know what's really meant through their writings.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Jan 19

@Shavkat And if we put a funny face after a comment people hopefully know we're not being serious.

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@ridingbet (66854)

• Philippines

4 Jan 19

when the mobile phone is just Nokia 3310, the emoticons were :), :(,

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

4 Jan 19

I still use them manually in my modern mobile phone at present.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

5 Jan 19

@ridingbet It is not bad to use the old ones.

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@ridingbet (66854)

• Philippines

5 Jan 19

@Shavkat the parenthesis, semi-colon, and the colon? me too kabsat.

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@aureliah (24687)

• Kenya

5 Jan 19

I mostly used the smiling or laughing one

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

5 Jan 19

Same thing here. I seldom use the negative emoticons.

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@Nickzter1331 (4229)

• Philippines

3 Jan 19

I always use happy emoticons.. to give color on my comments and posts..

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

4 Jan 19

It is nice that you use it that often. But, we also need to consider the proper usage of them.

Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

3 Jan 19

I use

the most. I think they're self explanatory.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

3 Jan 19

You said it right. These emoticons will send the message to the receivers without any explanations.

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@responsiveme (22923)

• India

3 Jan 19

I don't know some what they mean but the code tells us

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

3 Jan 19

We can get it right away the message of others using them.

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@Icydoll (36713)

• India

4 Jan 19

I love to use emojis

@leny34 (8506)

• Sidoarjo, Indonesia

3 Jan 19

I often use smileys or emoticons to smile

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

3 Jan 19

I do the same thing.