Smiley Face World

Looking to use smileys with an IM program like MSN , Yahoo, AIM, Skype, or even in your emails? Look no further. Smiley Face World provides you with more than 10,000 smileys that you can use right from your browser. Not only can you use these in your web chats,  but also in your Facebook, MySpace, and email! Best of all – it’s 100% Free and guaranteed to be free of  Spyware and Adware. We take pride in the downloads that we offer you, take a look at our comments section to see what people are saying – and feel free to leave a comment yourself…ENJOY!

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Main Features:

• More than 10,000 smileys!
• Access smileys right in your browser, email, facebook, and myspace!
• 100% compatible with popular instant messenger programs like MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Skype and AIM
• No Adware or Spyware – 100% Guaranteed

Smilies Included:

• Laughing Emoticons
• Animated Smiley Faces
• Angry Smiley Faces
• Funny Smiley Faces
• Winking Smiley Faces
• Sad Smiley Faces
• Love Smiley Faces
• Holiday Smileys (Halloween, Christmas, St. Pattys, etc.)
• Much More – Too Many to list all of them

 
How to use Smileys – A Tutorial:
Usually, IM programs and Social networking sites provide you with a side menu allowing you to insert smiley faces into your conversaton windows. The bad thing is that the types and selection of these smiley faces is usually very limited. Using smiley faces through the toolbar is extremely easy. All you have to do is put the cursor in the conversation window where you want to input the smiley face, then choose the smiley you want from the toolbar and select it. It’s really that simple. The great thing is that you have more than 10,000 smiley faces and emoticons you can use anywhere, including you IM programs, social networking sites, even in your email. Best of all, you don’t need to worry about Spyware or Adware – and its completely FREE! Only thing you need to worry about is how you’re going to use more than 10,000 smileys – GOOD LUCK!

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Ever wonder how smileys were invented? Well, ponder no more, the mystery is revealed.

A person by the name of Harvey Ball spent 10 minutes designing the first illustrated smiley faces in 1964 in Worcester, MA. He did this for a client who was attempting to ease that transition of two companies following a merger. But that’s not the beginning.

Previously, the use of character based representation of feeling or emotion has been documented as early as 1857 when Morse coders used the number 73 to represent love and kisses. Since then, in 1881 an American magazine titled ‘Puck’ began printing character based emoticons regularly. The first commonly used emoticon or smiley face was “-)” representing tongue in cheek when someone was being sarcastic.

Scott Falman, a web administrator first used the infamous “:-) and :-(“ in order to show that you were joking or being serious since many misunderstandings were taking place on message boards. Instant messenger programs were initially designed to recognize special character strings and replace them with a smiley face or emoticon. After a while, when smiley faces and emoticons became too numerous and character string became too complex, a little menu was provided in the conversation window to visually select the appropriate smiley face.

The best part of the Smiley Toolbar is that it provides you with a visual menu of more than 10,000 Smiley Faces and emoticons categorized into various groups, and you can use them anywhere in IM programs, social networking sites like facebook and myspace, and even your email. We ensure that the download is 100% Spyware and Adware free so all you have to worry about is how you’re going to use all that Smiley Face Clip Art.

Why are smiley face symbols so popular? In today’s world, where a large chunk of communication is being carried out through a digital medium, reading another persons emotions is not so simple. Psychologists state that 90% of communication between humans is non-verbal. Non-verbal communication is composed of gestures, facial expressions, distance between communicators, hand signals and everything that we notice that is not verbally communicated. For instance, when a career counselor gives advice on how to prepare for a successful interview, they may tell you to have a solid resume and get good references. What they will also tell you is that you must dress well, sit straight (not slouch), speak confidently, smile, make good eye contact, firm handshake etc. These are things which play an important aspect as to how you are perceived. Since 90% of communication is non-verbal, visual symbols such as smiley faces and emoticons have evolved to fulfill the void in traditional digital communication.

For instance, I could say “that’s a great dress” and be completely sarcastic, or really mean it. If one were to type it, it would be the exact same way. The question is then how is the person on the opposite side supposed to perceive the comment. This was the nature of early cyber conversations, full of misunderstood conversations. It the very reason why smileys are so rampant and popular in today’s cyber communication. To ensure that the other person knows what is being said – to give a sense of perception. Now, with the use of smiley faces, one could say “shut up : )” or “shut up! : (”. You can see how the two statements are completely opposite, yet without the smileys, hard to perceive what is being said.

The psychology of smileys goes even deeper. The use of which smiley is being used is extremely deep. For instance, there are more than a hundred happy smiley face symbols that could be utilized by an author of a cyber conversation. However, the one that they select has a, for them, the best illustration of what they are trying to express. Why then is one smiley face better than the other? And in a similar situation, would the same smiley face be selected by different authors. The questions to these answers are currently being sought by psychologists but definitely gives us something to think about the next time we choose to place a smiley face or emoticon in our web conversations.