Almost every internet user has used emoticon or smiley at least once in their lifetime. It may be an actual picture or a series of characters like :-).
You may become surprised after finding out how and why these emoticons smiley faces evolved in the online world of communication. According to the psychologists, it has been discovered that about 90% of the communication is non verbal.
A lot of communication is perceived through tone, gesture, body language, etc. On the internet, no matter whether it is in blog, forum, instant messenger chat or email, there is no availability of mechanism to convey non verbal signals.
Hence, emoticons and smiley are used to offer emotion such as sarcasm, anger, happiness, sadness, jokes, playful, bashfulness, etc.
Nowadays, emoticons smiley faces have become very popular in digital communication.
It is being used in all sorts of email providers (Yahoo!, Google, Hotmail, etc) and all instant messenger chat applications (Skype, AOL Messenger, Whatsapp, yahoo Messenger, etc).
With these smiley and emoticons, a person can express feeling which he cannot do in real life.
