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A Few of the Best Sites for Free Emotion Icons

Many of the newer instant messenger clients have a suite of free emotion icons that are automatically inserted whenever the user types a certain text string, and there are also web sites that offer free emotion icons that can be used to expand the limited set of free emotion icons that are included by default with the messengers.

Sites that offer free emotion icons take advantage of the instant messenger software's ability to include web images as part of the message.  The free emotion icons are stored on a web server and when the instant messenger user wishes to include one of the free emotion icons, he or she simply inserts the message URL into the text of the message using the appropriate tags.

One of the best sources of free emotion icons is the free emoticons website found at smileys.ws.  This site has hundreds of free emotion icons that are grouped into various categories such as laughing icons, surprised icons, angry icons, sports icons, and just about any other category of free emotion icons imaginable. 

If you use MSN Messenger and are concerned about relying on a third party web server to hold your free emotion icons, the web site emoinstaller.com offers a wide range of free emotion icons for MSN Messenger that can installed locally and do not require a callback to a web server. 

Regardless of what emotion or idea you are trying to express, there are likely free emotion icons that you can use that will do the job for you.  Some of the sites that offer free emotion icons require you to include the URL of the image location, while others provide free emotion icons that can be installed directly to your computer.