Do you have a hotmail email account and use
it to keep in touch with your friends and
family?
Do you use MSN messenger? DO you spend hours
chatting and always get frustrated with not
being able to get your message across to your
buds?
Hotmail Emoticons may be your
answer!
An emoticon is a piece of small computer generated art that
is used when chatting online.
It generally looks like a small face that is making an
expression.
Many users of Hotmail and MSN Messenger use emoticons
An emoticon displays your emotions; shows your tone of how
you would be speaking if you were in person.
Many people use emoticons to display what their body
language or actions would be if they were able to show the
person. So instead of simply typing hello, the user is able to
say hello and smile, then wink. The meaning behind what they
are saying becomes much clearer and much more illusive at the
same time.
Emoticons have become another way for people to communicate
online, by giving chatters a way to express their emotions and
body language.
Before emoticons chatters had many problems with their
friends not understanding how they said something, leaving
people hurt and confused.
Emoticons are designed to be simple. They are designed to be
easily typed or chosen in the natural flow of an Internet
conversation.
Many people use emoticons in order to make their
conversation seem more real.
Hotmail has been at the forefront of emoticons, as they have
fully embraced the use of emoticons in their services and
software.
Hotmail does provide some free emoticons in their MSN
software.
Many users get bored of the provided emoticons and feel that
they ones provided are great, but they don’t cover every thing
that they need.
Some companies do charge for the use of their
emoticons.