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<p>Here you can find the full list of Facebook emoticons codes for you to use in your chats with friends. Some of these were hidden and harder to find than others, but this is the complete list! You don&#8217;t need to download these emotes or smileys, you just need to type the code which is beneath the image and it will appear inside your Facebook chat box. There are so many different smileys and icons to use, you&#8217;ll be chatting for the rest of the year and you still might not be able to use them all!</p>
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<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-shark-emoticon.jpg" alt="facebook-shark-emoticon" title="facebook-shark-emoticon" width="21" height="20" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-34" /></p>
<h3>Facebook shark emoticon – (^^^)</h3>
<p>The Facebook emoticon for shark is one of the newest smileys that they have added to the chat program, but it&#8217;s fast becoming one of the most popular symbols that you can add! It looks pretty scary, and can represent anything you want – especially the movie Jaws from the 1980s, or even someone who bites when they kiss!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-penguin-emoticon.gif" alt="facebook-penguin-emoticon" title="facebook-penguin-emoticon" width="16" height="16" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-33" /></p>
<h3>Facebook penguin emoticon – <(") </h3>
<p>Penguins are one of the cutest animals in the world, and one of the most fun Facebook emotes to use inside your chats. Penguins represent Linux and with the winter months coming soon, why not type the code for this animal into your chat and send the little penguin!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-woot.gif" alt="facebook-emoticons-woot" title="facebook-emoticons-woot" width="14" height="14" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32" /></p>
<h3>Facebook woot emoticon – O.o </h3>
<p>What the heck?! Woot?! This If someone says something in your chat that you just can&#8217;t believe or makes you feel a little bit weird then please let them know about it by putting this into your conversation with them.</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-wink-kiss.jpg" alt="facebook-emoticons-wink-kiss" title="facebook-emoticons-wink-kiss" width="17" height="15" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-31" /></p>
<h3>Facebook kiss emoticon – :* </h3>
<p>Facebook emoticons were never the same after the kiss smiley or lips emote was inserted into the software. People everywhere use the kiss emoticon to show their love for their girlfriends and boyfriends, but also for family if they want to give them a special bit of affection.</p>
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<h3>Facebook wink emoticon – ;) </h3>
<p>The wink can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Maybe you find someone quite sexy so you want to show them – or maybe you just want to let a person know that what they&#8217;ve said is understood. Whatever the reason, give them a wink today and let them know!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-tongue.gif" alt="facebook-emoticons-tongue" title="facebook-emoticons-tongue" width="14" height="14" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-29" /></p>
<h3>Facebook tongue emoticon – :p </h3>
<p>Sticking your tongue out at someone used to be very impolite, but now it has become (at least on the internet) the global sign of being a little cheeky or naughty. Sometimes people even flirt on Facebook chat by sending the tongue symbol! Is there someone you like? Let them know!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-sunglasses.gif" alt="facebook-emoticons-sunglasses" title="facebook-emoticons-sunglasses" width="14" height="14" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-28" /></p>
<h3>Facebook sunglasses emoticon – 8-| </h3>
<p>Being cool in the winter means you must be wearing some shades and smoking on a cigar. Ok, maybe not the cigar – but the sunglasses emoticon on Facebook is one which everyone knows shows off the best people and the smartest dudes.</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-smiler.jpg" alt="facebook-emoticons-smiler" title="facebook-emoticons-smiler" width="16" height="14" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-27" /></p>
<h3>Facebook smiling emoticon – :) </h3>
<p>The world&#8217;s most famous emoticon is the smiley face. It&#8217;s simple, plain and fun – and nobody can deny that sending it to someone else will make them feel happy! You can let people know you are alright by sending this smiley – do it today!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-sad.gif" alt="facebook-emoticons-sad" title="facebook-emoticons-sad" width="14" height="14" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-25" /></p>
<h3>Facebook sad face emoticon – :( </h3>
<p>Not everyone who uses Facebook is happy, and if (for whatever reason) you&#8217;re feeling a little bit depressed about life, why not show the world your frown by using the Facebook sad face emoticon. It&#8217;s not depressing, but it can get you a little bit of sympathy!</p>
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<h3>Facebook robot emoticon – :|] </h3>
<p>Many of the Facebook emoticons are linked in some way to the 1980&#8242;s – a time when people were a little bit slower and life was not completely conducted online. It&#8217;s also a time when robots and computers were first brought into the household – so why not &#8216;do the robot&#8217; by adding this emoticon into your Facebook chats! It&#8217;s grey, funny and will shock and suprise anyone you chat with!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-putnam.jpg" alt="facebook-emoticons-putnam" title="facebook-emoticons-putnam" width="19" height="20" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-23" /></p>
<h3>Facebook Putnam emoticon – :putnam: </h3>
<p>This funny faced man is known as Chris Putnam, a software engineer who worked for Facebook on the development of their chat software system. The smart guy snook an emoticon into the program with his own face inside it – so now people will remember him forever!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-pacman.jpg" alt="facebook-emoticons-pacman" title="facebook-emoticons-pacman" width="18" height="18" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-22" /></p>
<h3>Facebook pacman emoticon – :v </h3>
<p>Pacman is one of the most famous video games that were developed around fifteen years ago, and now we can find this smiley little yellow face inside all of our chats on Facebook. He used to run around eating little yellow balls and killing ghosts – if this sounds like you too, then why not send it to your friends?</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-heart.jpg" alt="facebook-emoticons-heart" title="facebook-emoticons-heart" width="17" height="14" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-21" /></p>
<h3>Facebook heart emoticon – <3 </h3>
<p>If the Facebook kissing emoticon is one which causes a lot of love on the internet, the heart is its partner in crime. Giving your heart to someone online is just significant as doing it in real life, so why not make someone feel special and send this smiley to them now!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-happy-eyes.gif" alt="facebook-emoticons-happy-eyes" title="facebook-emoticons-happy-eyes" width="14" height="14" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-20" /></p>
<h3>Facebook happy eyes emoticon – ^_^ </h3>
<p>Kiki, or happy eyes, was developed and influenced by the Japanese, who are huge fans of animation and manga. This particular emote seems to suggest that the user is very very happy with himself and his situation – and why not?</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-glasses.jpg" alt="facebook-emoticons-glasses" title="facebook-emoticons-glasses" width="17" height="15" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-19" /></p>
<h3>Facebook glasses emoticon – 8) </h3>
<p>Glasses used to be only worn by people who were geeky and boring – but now it is completely cool to have some frames on (even if your eyesight is completely perfect!). Why not send someone the glasses emote today and show off your latest pair?</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-gasp.jpg" alt="facebook-emoticons-gasp" title="facebook-emoticons-gasp" width="17" height="14" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18" /></p>
<h3>Facebook gasp emoticon – :o </h3>
<p>Being shocked inside a Facebook chat is nothing new, so don&#8217;t be surprised if someone says something amazing to you – just send them this Facebook gasp emoticon! It&#8217;s another of those &#8216;classic&#8217; smilies which you can do on every chat program, so it&#8217;s good that you can now do it on FB!</p>
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<h3>Facebook errr emoticon – :/ </h3>
<p>Sometimes you don&#8217;t agree with something someone says to you in a chat online, but you&#8217;re not sure about how to tell them that you think they&#8217;re an idiot – well this Facebook emoticon can help you! Errr&#8230;I&#8217;m not sure about it&#8230;</p>
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<h3>Facebook doh emoticon – >:-( </h3>
<p>DOH! It looks like someone&#8217;s really put their foot in it this time. When someone completely messes up and you just want to tell them about it, give them a &#8216;doh&#8217;! It also looks a little bit like this person has been smacked on the head!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-devil.gif" alt="facebook-emoticons-devil" title="facebook-emoticons-devil" width="14" height="15" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15" /></p>
<h3>Facebook devil emoticon – 3:) </h3>
<p>You don&#8217;t necessarily have to be evil to use the Facebook devil smiley, but it probably helps! This little red face can mean many different things – some girls think it is a little sexy to be a devil (especially around Halloween), but generally a naughty person will take this and use it as their logo!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-crying.jpg" alt="facebook-emoticons-crying" title="facebook-emoticons-crying" width="17" height="14" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14" /></p>
<h3>Facebook crying emoticon – :&#8217;( </h3>
<p>Tears are something which are soon stopped if they are shared, so maybe using this crying emote in your chat can help soeone else feel your pain and give you the sympathy you need. </p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-cat-smile.jpg" alt="facebook-emoticons-cat-smile" title="facebook-emoticons-cat-smile" width="18" height="16" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13" /></p>
<h3>Facebook cat smile emoticon – :3 </h3>
<p>This smiley looks like the person is completely content and happy with life – smiling like a little happy cat or other cute animal. Some people think that the curly smile is actually a little moustache – but you can make up your own mind about this icon!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-big-smile.jpg" alt="facebook-emoticons-big-smile" title="facebook-emoticons-big-smile" width="17" height="14" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12" /></p>
<h3>Facebook big smile emoticon – :D </h3>
<p>Another classic emoticon is the big smile – it stretches far across the screen and can show everyone on the internet that you are as happy as can be. Why not add it right now to a chat and watch as your colleague, friend or family member smiles right back at you!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-angel.gif" alt="facebook-emoticons-angel" title="facebook-emoticons-angel" width="16" height="15" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11" /></p>
<h3>Facebook angel emoticon – o:) </h3>
<p>Just like the devil emoticon for Facebook chat, the angel can say different things to different people – but one thing is for sure – anyone who uses the angel in their conversations is trying to let the world know that they are as pure as the driven snow – so it is perfect for Christmas and winter time!</p>
<p><img src="http://facebookemoticons.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/facebook-emoticons-aiya.gif" alt="facebook-emoticons-aiya" title="facebook-emoticons-aiya" width="14" height="14" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10" /></p>
<h3>Facebook aiya emoticon – >:o</h3>
<p>This smiley looks a bit like the one where someone has been bashed on the head, but actually he&#8217;s smiling so maybe he&#8217;s actually laughing! Try to add this one to a chat and show people that you can take a joke – or that you are the joker yourself!</p>
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<p>These are all of the possible Facebook emoticons – when any are released into the internet you can be sure that we will be the first to bring you the news about their release, and the codes to put them into your Facebook chats! Which Facebook emoticons are your favourites – let us know in the comments!</p>
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		<title>The top 6 Facebook emoticons</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook emoticons come in many different colours, shapes and varieties. People use them for different reasons, and adding icons and smilies to your chats seems to have been around just as long as chatting with computers. Many people like to discuss and debate which smileys are the best and the coolest – well we have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://facebookemoticons.biz">Facebook emoticons</a> come in many different colours, shapes and varieties. People use them for different reasons, and adding icons and smilies to your chats seems to have been around just as long as chatting with computers. Many people like to discuss and debate which smileys are the best and the coolest – well we have constructed a list of the top six best Facebook emoticons on the planet – and now we want you to check it out and let us know what you think – which one is your favourite Facebook smiley and is it in this list?</p>
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<h2>The top 6 Facebook emoticons</h2>
<h3>Number 6 &#8211; Facebook angel emoticon – o:)</h3>
<p>The beautiful angel is the smiley which makes it into the top six in last place. It is used by a huge number of people to show different emotions and feelings, so it is really the &#8216;usability&#8217; of this one which puts it so near the top! Girls love to send this one to their boyfriends (or potential boyfriends!) to show them how innocent and pure they are – and boys also like to send it to girls to show their integrity and honesty. Of course, sending an emoticon doesn&#8217;t make your trustworthy, but still – it&#8217;s good to know that people think it does!</p>
<h3>Number 5 &#8211; Facebook crying emoticon – :&#8217;( </h3>
<p>Not all emoticons are positive, and the crying emote is still a cute one to use even though it might have a slightly negative connotation. Most of the time people send crying when they&#8217;re not really literally in tears at their keyboard, but maybe they&#8217;re just a little unhappy with a situation and want someone else (a friend or lover perhaps) to do something about it. This usually leads to the problem being resolved, and everyone becoming happy – so it&#8217;s been included in this list!</p>
<h3>Number 4 &#8211; Facebook glasses emoticon – 8) </h3>
<p>Facebook chat has changed many people from boring to cool – because it&#8217;s given them the opportunity to communicate with all of their hundreds of Facebook friends from the past and present in an easy way. The glasses emoticon is a good one to represent these people, as anyone who sits at their screen all day will certainly need glasses in the very near future. It might not be used a lot by the users of Facebook emoticons, but that unique quality is what makes it into this list!</p>
<h3>Number 3 &#8211; Facebook heart emoticon – <3 </h3>
<p>The heart emoticon is one which holds so much emotion and feeling that it should have a website set up just for itself! The heart is something that can now be sent electronically to those who you love, to let them know your true feelings – and then you can teach the person you sent it to how to do it so that they can send it back to you. It&#8217;s the ultimate in love that can be sent to friends or lovers or even your family members who you couldn&#8217;t live without!</p>
<h3>Number 2 &#8211; Facebook robot emoticon – :|] </h3>
<p>Many people who use Facebook (the driving force behind its worldwide success) were born in the 1980s, and so breakdancing was a big part of a lot of their lives. This smiley for Facebook chat sums up the fun and cool factor of &#8216;breaking&#8217; and lets you put it directly into your online conversations with people. Even though the colour is grey, it clearly is one of the most lively and brilliant emoticons available for you to use!</p>
<h3>Number 1 &#8211; Facebook kiss emoticon – :* </h3>
<p>What do people use Facebook chat for? It&#8217;s not to be nasty to people, and it&#8217;s not to make fun – generally it&#8217;s to stay in touch with people that you care about. And who do you care about more than a lover? Girlfriends and boyfriends around the world use the chat software to keep in touch when they are apart, and the kiss emoticon for Facebook chat is one which says so much in just a tiny little emote. If you have ever been apart from your loved-ones then you know exactly what I mean, and you also know that you need to send them this five times per conversation just to make them feel happy! It&#8217;s the best smilie or icon that you can ever send someone who you want to be close to right now – so do it today!</p>
<p>There you have the top six <a href="http://facebookemoticons.biz">Facebook emoticons</a> and their meanings and justification – we hope that yours is inside this list, and if it isn&#8217;t then you should let us know about why you think yours should be there in the comments!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who are new to using Facebook chat may think that Facebook emoticons have been an intergral part of the social network since its inception more than five years ago. This is, in fact, not the case – and the entire system for live communication via chat was actually not a part of Facebook until [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People who are new to using Facebook chat may think that <a href="http://facebookemoticons.biz">Facebook emoticons</a> have been an intergral part of the social network since its inception more than five years ago. This is, in fact, not the case – and the entire system for live communication via chat was actually not a part of Facebook until much more recently. Where did it come from? Why did they choose to add it? What is the history of the Facebook chat emoticons? Let&#8217;s take a look.</p>
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<p>Five years ago, the social networking scene was completely different. Myspace dominated the internet in terms of connecting people to their friends, family members and colleagues – however it was not completely integrated into our lives, the way Facebook is now. The reason for this was a number of key mistakes, committed by Myspace and their partners over a two year period, which allowed Facebook the chance to enter the market and then (as we have seen) dominate it.</p>
<p>The first error that Myspace made was to almost completely ignore the needs of its users and the reasons why they had come to the social network in the first place. Communication is one of the key reasons that the internet has gone from being a military help to the single biggest invention in the last one hundred years. The connection between homes and people are now unbreakable, and every day it becomes more and more integrated. This communication was something that Myspace offered when it was first made available to users – the abililty to give and receive information to people who you knew (either in real life or online). This changed though.</p>
<p>The site became a popularity contest – a way for people with low self esteem to prove their popularity by adding hundreds of fake friends who they didn&#8217;t really know to their profiles. Another mistake was that the users were given the ability to upload custom CSS files to their pages, which could affect the layout. Chaos ensued, with member pages frequently breaking or proving unreadable to a number of browsers and users. People wanted to go back to the simplicity of being able to communicate with their friends without all of the bells, whistles, gadgets and plugins.</p>
<h3>Facebook emoticons</h3>
<p>Enter Facebook. The clean design and clear navigation was like a gift from heaven for the disillusioned Myspace users, and they signed up in their millions. What had begun as a tool for University classmates to talk with each other and plan their social calendars had become a platform for everyone to share photos, messages and eventually chat.</p>
<p>When chat was introduced to the site nearly two years ago, there were concerns that the size of Facebook (which now dominated the social networking world) would mean that any browser based addon would be slow and bulky, but it proved to be quite the opposite. The lightweight client proved extremely popular as it was tested thoroughly in beta before being rolled out to the public.</p>
<p>Many users were surprised by the style of this chat service – it seemed to almost be a step back in terms of technology and usability from MSN and Yahoo Messenger. This, however, was the plan of Facebook – to continue to offer a sleek and clean interface, which held (under the hood) the power that users needed to continue to keep in touch with each other and chat. After initial resistance, people embraced the new platform until billions of messages were being sent every single day. It was a phenomenon.</p>
<p>One small feature which seemed to be missing when chat was introduced was that of Facebook emoticons. Since the advent of ICQ and MSN more than a decade ago, people were used to being able to send small graphics and icons to their friends to represent their feelings and emotions – so where were they? The answer, of course, was that they were hidden! You could access these images, but you needed to learn the codes for inserting the symbols into your Facebook chats. So how could you find the different key press combinations to put them in your conversations? That was the hard part.</p>
<p>People tried different combos for days, trying to uncover all of the different permutations – and finally after a couple of weeks they were all found and listed online. Of course, people didn&#8217;t immediately look for them, but now we can see that the popularity of <a href="http://facebookemoticons.biz">Facebook emoticons</a> is such that theyre are hundreds of websites talking about them on the web (including this one!).</p>
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