Vt. The act of misleading or tricking someone while communicating via email or Messenger, by using emoticons to imply that statements are not true or not as serious as they really are.
Jane's boss is emoticonning her. He emails here about head office plans RE her team, but then ends his sentences with winks. So, Jane is convinced that all these big plans are just talk.
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Given the fact that sarcasm, joking, kidding, and light humor can be taken SOOOO the wrong way via internet, IMing, email, and text, people use emoticons to show facial expressions and add dynamic to the conversation.
An expression typed by keyboard figures, later replaced by emojis (Which was a downgrade). It is commonly used in text messages.
Examples are listed below
:)-happy
:(-sad
:D- Very happy
XD- laughing
Billy: wut is emoticon
Sally: O.O
Billy: wut happened
Sally: dat was emoticon
An emoticon, sometimes called a smiley, is a sequence of printable characters such as :) or ^_^, that is intended to represent a human facial expression and convey an emotion. Use in internet forums and instant-messaging.
emoticons:
:) smile
:( frown
;) wink
:P or :Γ tongue sticking out: joke, sarcasm or disgusting
8) has sunglasses: looking cool
:O surprised
:S confused
:'( shedding a tear
XD laughing, eyes shut (LOL)
XP Tongue out, eyes shut
^_^ smiley
^.^ see above, but rather than a wide, closed mouth, a small mouth is present
^_~ wink
>_< angry, frustrated
=_= bored
-_- annoyed -_-' or ^_^' or ^_^;; nervousness, sweatdrop or embarrassed.
Β¬_Β¬ or <_< "yeah, right...", looking around suspiciously
;_; crying
o_O Confused
O_O Shocked O_< Flinch, wink, twiching
._. intimidated, sad, ashamed
$_$ Money Eyes; Thinking about Money x_x Dead or Knocked Out 9_9Eye Rolling
*_* Star-Struck
t(-_-t) or ,|,,(-_-),,|, Flipping off
=^_^= blushing, or a cat face u.u duh, sarcastic "what do you think?" face
\m/>_<\m/ Rockin' out
Emoticons are what predated #Emoji in a lot of chatrooms, messages, emails, and texts years ago. Also many come from Japan like #orz (a stick figure kneeling down.)
They can be used to save text space as #Emoji often will take data/text amount to send, used where you can't send Emoji, and they can also be more complicated, too.
#Kaomoji (Japanese Emoticons) and ASCII (pictures from text and symbols) fall into emoticons sometimes yet it has now today evolved into their own thing, too.
Jim: what do you want for dinner :D ?
Emmy: Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Jim: D: Cant decide again??
Faces made to express emotions using simple keyboard keys. You Azian, You AOL, and you'll see deez alot. You're lucky I don't give a shit, but I'm sure you all are gonna bite off on these...
:) ;) :^) ^_^ *.* ^o^ @_@ :Γ ?_? and the saddest one of all, the Pikachu: (o^_^o) Pika-pi! 9_9