Smilies 
Smilies (or Emoticon) can be used to give feeling to messages and emails since we can't see the writer's face or hear their voice over the internet.
A Smiley is a sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your keyboard. The most common smiley is the smiling face, made from 3 characters :-)
If you can't see that it represents a smiling face, tip your head to the left and look at it again. The colon represents the eyes, the dash represents the nose, and the right parenthesis represent the mouth.
| :-) :) |
Your basic smilie - a smiling face seen side-on. Generally used to indicate a smile or that a comment is intended to be funny or ironic <g> or <grin> is also sometimes used for the same purpose |
| :-( :( |
An unhappy face seen side on. Generally used to express disappointment or sorrow |
| ;-) | A winking smiley face - usually indicates that something should be taken "with a grain of salt" |
| :>) | User is happy about the comment, topic, situation, talking to you |
| *>) | User is joking about the comment, teasing, tounge in cheek |
| *>)~ | User is usually laughing at himself |
| :>(( | User is very sad, not happy at all |
These are the basic ones
....... here are some less common ones, just for fun:
| >:-> | User just made a really devilish remark (note the devil's horns) |
| >;-> | Winky and devillish combined. A very lewd remark was just made |
| %-) | User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hours straight |
| :*) | User is drunk |
| 8-) | User is wearing sunglasses |
| 8:-) | Sunglasses on head |
| ::-) | User wears normal glasses |
| :-{) | User has a mustache |
| {:-) | User wears a toupee |
| }:-( | Toupee in an updraft |
| :-[ | User is a vampire |
| :'-( | User is crying |
| :'-) | User is so happy, he is crying |
| :-X | User's lips are sealed |
| :-o | Uh Oh! |
| :) | Midget smilie |
| :] | A friendly midget smilie who will gladly be your friend |
| - - -:-) | User is a punk rocker |
| - - -:-( | (real punk rockers don't smile) |
There are many, many more :-o
Try some out or even invent some of your own!
:>))))))))))) Over the moon smilie :>)