An Emoticon or Smiley is a sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in email, chat, SMS and other forms of communication using computers. The most popular emoticons are the smiling faces smileys or smilies that people use to say dont take what I just wrote too seriously. If you dont see that it represents a smiling face, tip your head to the left and look at it again. The colon represents the eyes, the dash represents the nose, and the right parenthesis represent the mouth.

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