Using Smileys and Emoticons in Facebook

Facebook has a proprietary smiley system, and make it a bit tough to insert external icons and smileys to chats. This short guide will cover all the ways to insert Smileys to your posts, messages, status and wall.


Internal Facebook Smileys

If you want to use smileys or emoticons in your facebook chat, the easiest way would be to employ the built-in smileys in the system. To do that, just enter the combination of letters or symbols mentioned in the chart below, and see your small icon taking shape:

Smiley Expression Code 1 Code 2
Smiley - happy Smile
Smiley - big grin Big smile
Smiley - wink emoticon Wink
Smiley - happy eyes Happy
Smiley - laughing eyes Happy eyes
Smiley - Cat smile Cat smile
Smiley - grumpy Grumpy
Smiley - sad Sad
Smiley - crying Crying
Smiley - shocked Shocked
Smiley - glasses Four-eyes
Smiley - cool shades Cool
Smiley - tongue emoticon Tongue
Smiley - woot emoticon Uh?
Smiley - dork Nerd
Smiley - uncertain Uncertain
Smiley - devil emoticon Devil
Smiley - angel emoticon Angel
Smiley - kiss Kiss
Smiley - love emoticon Heart
Smiley - pacman Pacman
Smiley - robot emoticon Robot
Smiley - guy face Face