Using Emoticons on Facebook Chat
Have you ever experienced that the person your chatting, e-mailing, or texting with completely misunderstood your message as a supposed joke came up as a mocking note? LOL! Naturally, this cannot happen with your Church Advertising strategies. The sender’s “tone” is not always expressed for the recipient to clearly understand the message. :-0 In computer-generated communications, this is somwhat very tough to achieve because of impersonal nature of any conversation online.
Good thing the emoticons were invented as they bring life and personal touch to compensate for lack of physical contact and in person interaction.
When you use an emoticon, it is the same as informing them of your facial expression to the recipient of your message. It could also pertain to the current emotion and mood of the person sending the information which definitely helps in understanding the feelings involved in a discussion and as well as the information itself.
Emoticons are very common and widely applied in emails and IMs such as Skype, MSN messenger, and Yahoo Messenger (YM). But, are you knowledgeable that you can likewise make use of these emoticons in your Facebook Chat? Emoticons can still be integrated in your messages as long as you know their character combos or sequences as Facebook does not offer an emoticon menu in its chat interface.