Facebook Chat Faces

Introduction to Facebook chat FACES

The Facebook chat was unveiled by Facebook in the year 2008, and shortly thereafter, the emoticons were introduced. Now in 2012 there is no special codes to use the facebook chat faces – thanks to the new Facemoods plugin. A unique feature of this social networking portal (Facebook) is attributable to the fact that, unlike MSN or Skype, not every kind of emoticon can be inserted in the chats. The emoticons of Facebook are always hidden, and users need to use specific codes for getting the emoticons to be displayed. This write-up is an attempt to provide basic information of not just the various smileys, facebook chat faces, emotes, etc, of Facebook, but also to give the related codes.

New free Facebook Chat Faces Software

The days where you had to remember special codes to use the Facebook Chat Faces icons are now long gone. Thanks to the new free browser plugin from Facemoods you can now get all the classic Facebook Chat Faces and many more to use without any codes. Just install the free software, right-click in the Facebook chat and choose which Facebook Chat Face to use – very easy to use and the best of it all – it is absolutely free

Facebook Chat Faces List

The following table has details of some of the facebook chat faces that are used in Facebook chats, as well as the corresponding symbols to be typed on the keyboard:

SNO	SYMBOLS TO BE TYPED	FACES	EMOTION CONVEYED
1	or		Happiness
2	or		Extreme Happiness
3	or		Winking
4	>:o		Laughing Eyes
5	:3		Cat Smile
6	>:-(		Grumpiness
7	or		Sadness
8	:’(		Crying
9	:O or :-O		Shock
10	or		Glasses Emote
11	:p or :-p		Rudeness
12	3:)		Devil Emote
13	:-* or :*		Kiss Emote
14	<3		Love Emote
15	O:)		Angel Emote
16	:v		Pacman
17	utnam:		Weird Guy’s Face
18	<(“)		Penguin Emoticon

 Facebook chat faces tricks

The ensuing are few of the chat tricks related to Facebook, and about which, many people are not aware:

1)   Placing Facebook chat on sidebar of Firefox: Users can position their Facebook chat on Firefox’s sidebar in a fairly simple manner, which is as follows. Firstly, one needs to access Bookmarks and then select Organize Bookmarks. Subsequent to that, the New Bookmark needs to be clicked, and this needs to be followed by giving the below-mentioned details.

Name: Facebook Chat

Location: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php

In the next step, the person has to check Load this bookmark in sidebar. Finally, Firefox sidebar can be launched and by clicking on Facebook chat, users can begin chatting.

2)   Sharing of Flickr Photos to Facebook: Flickr2Facebook enables users in uploading photos from Flickr, on to Facebook. The link http://www.keebler.net/flickr2facebook/ has step-by step instructions about the way in which this can be done. 

3)   Updating Facebook without its (Facebook) usage: Both ping.fm and hellotxt have ensured that several new features got included in Facebook where, updating the pages has become very simple for administrators. The link http://hellotxt.com/ guides people about the usage of hellotxt, while http://ping.fm/ contains related information about ping.fm. 

4)   Scheduling of Facebook messages: Scheduling of Facebook messages well before the actual time is made possible by Sendible. In fact, this scheduling is such that the messages reach all the specified recipients at a future point of time. The online location http://sendible.com/ assists the users in making the best use of the feature (Scheduling of messages).

5)   Including someone as a friend and concealing the same in status updates: Makeuseof ensures that, indeed, users would be having no hassles in concealing this information from other friends. Users can download Makeuseof from the site http://www.makeuseof.com/.

At this point, it needs to be mentioned that all the above are just few of the several Facebook tricks that can be used for various purposes. These are some of the other tricks that people can put to good use: Downloading of Facebook photo albums, using images of Facebook friends for creation of photo collage, Getting aware when blocked or deleted by friends, display of specified images on the Profile Page (of Facebook) and Removal of Facebook advertisements, to name a few. The Internet-based location http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/20-facebook-tipstricks-you-might-not-know/ has an exhaustive list of all the tricks, along with guidance about their usage.

Secret Facebook chat faces

The table that is present below includes details about some secret Facebook chat faces. As suggested by the term “secret”, several people are not aware about these facebook chat faces. This table also specifies about the corresponding key that needs to be typed for getting the different faces displayed in the chat.

SNO	SYMBOLS TO BE TYPED	FACE DISPLAYED	EMOTION CONVEYED
1	:p		Tongue Emoticon
2	^_^		Happy Eyes Emoticon
3	:/		Err Emoticon
4	>:-(		Doh Emoticon
5	>:O		Aiya Emoticon
6	O.o		Woot Emoticon

Shortcut keys for few Facebook Chat Faces

The following table contains information about some Facebook emoticons, facebook chat faces and the related shortcut keys:

 

SNO	EMOTICON	SHORTCUT KEY	DESCRIPTION
1		(y) (Y)	Like/Thumb Up
2		:42:	42 Red Number Facebook Chat Emoticon
3		:3	Curly Lips Facebook Emoticon
4		>:O	Upset Emoticon
5		:-/	Unsure Emoticon
6			Surprise Emoticon

Now, Facebook chat without the emoticons is just unimaginable, and it is hence essential that users have a fairly good knowledge about the varied facebook chat faces, smileys and emotes. In fact, the emoticons there in the above table are just few of the many that are currently in vogue (on Facebook). The link http://www.messengeroo.com/facebook-chat/use-facebook-emoticons-chat-shortcut-keys-symbols/ gives comprehensive information about all emotes as well as the corresponding shortcut keys.

 

Facebook Shark Emoticon

The Shark Emoticon is a fairly recent addition to the Facebook, and it has already become very popular amongst the users. This is the way in which this emoticon appears, and users can get this displayed by typing (^^^) with the keyboard. As a matter of fact, it is being seen that the usage of Shark Emoticon is much higher than all others facebook chat faces (emoticons), on Facebook. Here, it would be interesting to note that this particular emote (Shark) has been inspired from a popular movie of the 1980s: Jaws.

 

An Online List of Facebook Chat Faces

There are several locations on the Worldwide Web that have lists about the various smileys and emoticons that are used in Facebook. But, it is essential that users know about the exact emotes that are presently very popular and are being used extensively. The location on Internet, http://www.fbhive.com/facebook-chat-smileys-emoticons-and-text-formatting/, can be considered to be a direct response to that requirement of users. Here, a thorough list of all emotes that are now being seen a lot (on Facebook) is included. In addition, there are also comments made by several users about the various facebook chat faces, smileys, symbols and emotes, etc. If you haven´t done so already – go ahead and download your free copy of the Facemoods Facebook Chat Faces plugin today!