MSN Messenger Emoticons – Why Are Emoticons Important Online?
Everyone would have used a MSN messenger emoticons or at the least a smiley when working online. It could be either a picture of just a series of symbols such as 
, but everyone would have come across one for sure in their experience on internet.
One might be astonished when they come to know the evolution of smiley which is used so often in communications on net. Researches by psychologists show that nearly 90% of communication by humans are not verbal, which is not a big surprise. The thoughts are conveyed most of the times with gestures, tones or the body language and so one.
But when we are chatting online, be it in a blog or on mail or expressing your opinion in a forum or in messengers, we do not have any mechanism to make such non-verbal communication. That was when the smiley or the MSN messenger emoticons came to our rescue. These are used to covey any emotion be it anger, sarcasm, playful, jokes, bashfulness, sadness, etc.
“:-J” representing the tongue in cheek is the first significant emoticon or smiley.
Nowadays these smiley or emoticons have become so famous in this digital mode of communication, from just being a simple sequence of characters to images and now to animated 3-D emoticons. Almost all the latest email service providers such as Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail are supporting these smiley icons and so are the instant messenger applications for chat like AOL messenger, MSN messenger, Skype, yahoo messenger, etc.
WordPress which is a well known blog engine, which has a support for converting characters to images. This could be painful for bloggers but the good news is it can be disabled easily.
It is really amazing that such meaningless MSN messenger emoticons can help in covey psychological emotions.