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: