History of emoticons

Earlier forms of smileys, and emoticons representing love and affection were used in Morse Code in 1850’s
Abraham Lincoln’s speech in 1862 had ;) – debate as to whether it was a typo or intentional
Used throughout the 20^th Century in comics, books, and even company logos

Why do people use them?

In simple terms, it is used to represent the facial expression of the writer at that point in time

- Uses range from happiness, sadness, angry, confused, shy, and hundreds more

- Became popular because of msn

- Although many of the emoticon shortcuts don’t represent the actual image

For example: 8-) means someone who is rolling their eyes at you. It can be a sarcastic emotion or when it becomes an awkward moment

Let’s play a game: the first slide will show the way the emoticon is written and the second slide will give you a view from a different angle so you can clearly see what it means

I have already shown three emoticons: the angry face, the wink emoticons, and the rolling eyes emoticon

Let’s move on to the 4^th one – this is the most common known emoticon. It is also known as a smiley face

Then we have the disappointed face – this can be used to express your disappointment in your children for not coming home late

After this, we have what is called the shocked face

This next one is very funny looking: it is an image of the emoticon sticking out it’s tongue. For the mouth and the tongue, we use the letter P.

Now we have the sad face, followed by the crying face

Then there is the big-smile or the open-mouth smile

Confused face

Heart

Broken heart

Now some of the other cool ones that I personally like are:

This mad face

This is also a confused face

And then we got a real cute smiley face

Then there is the suspicious smiley

And to finish it off, there is the sceptical/annoyed emoticon

A document is attached to this article detailing all the emoticons that we discussed duing the show.