Smiley has become a tool nowadays to express one’s moods or feelings in a graphical way like smiling smiley, sad smiley, love smiley, crazy smiley, cool smiley, etc. in chatting or conversing on the internet or web and even in your cell phone have the standard yellow smiley feature.

Who  will not be enamored with these cute smileys we saw on the internet, whether a happy smiley, love smiley, sad smiley, crazy smiley, dancing smiley, evil smiley, happy birthday smiley, and many  smileys face, smileys icon, smileys clipart, and smiley pics; they are fantastically cute and cool smiley proliferating the web. Mostly we use them in forums and instant messaging like the Yahoo Messenger but most smileys in yahoo messenger were more adorable than the on MSN messenger and other messengers.

So why does we are hooked and enamored with these little cute faces on the internet as well as to high-tech phones or gadgets having a smiley feature? Smileys are sometimes called Emoticons or a textual expression of the mood of the writer instead of letters or words to express it. This can be express through using symbols like colon and parenthesis and even numbers and letters that connotes and symbolizes facial expression, like J, L,: I, : o, : - ), =), ;),;- (, etc. But because of html encoding system we have now, these smiley symbols has been encoded to produce the standard yellow smiley we have now in the web and in our phone. Moreover, even pink smiley and red smiley is now been encoded to have an alternative for standard yellow smiley.

This standard yellow smiley or red smiley is the most readably smiley we have today whatever the emotions it is projecting to, but the most difficult and unreadable smiley is the symbol smiley like,-.-,”/,etc. it is hard to discern the smiley meaning of this type of smiley.

Smiley is a way to express ourselves more effectively than a mere words to the person we are chatting with or conversing with for more clear and accurate graphical depiction of what we felt inside. And in other hand, the receiver of your smiley will also felt it. Thus, some loves to use it in their web conversation to empathize on a graphical sense their reactions or emotions to their chat mate. However, some loves to use it, for example, a happy birthday smiley or love smiley or santa smiley as a decoration in their e-mail letter, especially if sending e-mail greetings during birthday or Christmas times or any occasion that has a corresponding smiley icon.

However, in forums, too much smiley on a post is a no-no because it already become too messy and the message you are trying to convey were overshadow by too much smiley icons you put in.

Thus, because most people now in the web loves to use it, there are now site who gave free smileys that any user can use. But beware of this free download of smileys or emoticons because mostly this is just a trap wherein the cute smileys were the bait of the internet fraudlers to insert spyware or malware to your computer. They use the cute smileys and the free promo as a big bait to unsuspecting internet surfers. Therefore beware of the internet ads you saw proliferating on every websites offering you free smileys, smiley wallpapers, emoticons downloads, etc. This could be a trap and fraud.