Reviews/Opinions

- In a Orkut Community:

These cute little face figures can tell us the mood of people who are miles away from us and thus can express the state, nature and thoughts of our near ones. So all those who think emotions can be best expressed online through smileys can join in here :-)These cute little face figures can tell us the mood of people who are miles away from us and this can express the state, nature and thoughts of our near ones. So all those who think emotions can be best expressed online through smileys can join in here.

- In a website

I love emoticons. I feel like the internet is very impersonal sometimes and the use of :-D conveys a little bit of personality. A lot of times, it is hard to tell whether someone is being serious or funny over the web and emoticons can clarify.

- From Canadian Microsoft website:

To get along as a netizen, don’t stop with etiquette. Because it's often difficult to convey emotion, intent, or tone with text alone, early Internet users invented emoticons, which are virtual facial expressions made from basic keyboard characters, like the colon and right parentheses (just remember to rotate your head left a bit, because emoticons lay on their sides at 90 degrees!).
Emoticons are easy and fun to use and you can even create your own. :-} (click here to see the full article)