How to Make Smiley Faces Including emoticons in your text messages is a way for you to express your feelings or signal the topic of your text. Using the right emoticon can help your reader gain a better understanding of your message. The word “emoticon” is actually a combination of “emotion” and “icon”. Emoticons can be formed by typing a short series of characters on your keyboard. The first smiley face, to appear on the Internet is credited to a message board posting in 1982 by a research scientist named Scott Fahlman. The most common emoticons consist of :), :( or :P, which are happy, sad and cheeky, respectively. Emoticons have evolved dramatically ever since, with expressions ranging from classic to complicated. Instructions 1. Make a smiley face to express happiness or good will, The smile comes in a variety of forms, the most common being :-). Variations include :), :], :o), =), =o) and :D. 2. Make a sad face to express displeasure or sadness. Frowned faces are similar to smiley faces, except that the opening parentheses is used instead of the closing one. :-(, :(, :o(, =o( and :-[ are common. 3. Make a laughing emotion to express humour and mirth. :D, :-D, XD, X-D and =D are common for laughter. 4. Make a winking face to express playfulness or facetiousness. A semi-colon or asterisk is used for the eyes. ;), ;-D, ;D and *-D are common. 5. Make a skeptical or annoyed face to express you displeasure or uncertainty. Variations include =/, :-/, =-/ and :-/.