Smiley Faces vs Emoticons

What’s the big deal between saying smiley faces or emoticons? A lot of people feel strongly about saying “smiley” over “emoticon”, because the two have very different meanings. A smiley refers to just, well, smiling. An emoticon is more web lingo for emote, or emotion, combined with the word icon. So technically it’s an icon of an emotion. Get it? The struggle between saying emoticon and smiley face hasn’t really affected a lot of Internet trends, according to Google searches; people recognize the word emoticon above smiley faces, due to the volume of search done for those specific key words. Animated Smiley vs. Animated Emoticon The winner of the most wanted goes to: “Animated Emoticon”! Again, the most sought out keyword is the animated emoticon. This may be because emoticon was the pioneering word that lead a revolution. MSN Messenger uses the word in its IM client to trigger their graphics and inserts them into a chat window. They’ve recently come out with the ability to turn your (the user) .gif files into animated emoticons. Smiley Faces Site vs. the other emoticon sites: While surfing the Internet for these beloved graphics, I ran across a lot of really pathetic looking sites. Most spam the heck out of their pages and just flood their keywords into their site’s content. I believe in quality over quantity, so that’s why the graphic interface of our site is finely tuned to provide a quality user experience, so that you guys will return and enjoy more fun, free product downloads. If you would like to see more of our site just send us an email! Tell us what you would like to see us do with our site, from content, to the graphics and the way we have our site laid out. We will update frequently, adding more pages of content, more news articles, and of course more animated emoticons, animated emoticons, and smiley faces, all for one-hundred-percent free. That’s our promise to you, the user. Thanks for taking the time to read our stuff.