Smiley Animations - Making Electronic Communications Appealing

Using smiley animations can be the perfect way to get your point across - whether you want your recipient to know that you are angry, happy or the major extreme of either of them!

In a room full of people, no matter who they are or how old they are, how many people do you think there are that have not used some form of electronic communication? We email instead of sending letters, occasionally we send a text rather than an email. With both, we sometimes want to punctuate our words with cute little pictures or by using animated smileys so that our exact feelings are shown in graphic detail.

Thankfully, animations can be used in other ways- for instance, during an instant message conversation. That way, you don’t have to keep writing everything out and you don’t have to say “I am happy” or “that makes me angry”, your smiley animations can show your emotions without a single word. Sure, you can make your own basic smileys by using a various collection of the letters and punctuation, but if you cannot remember that it is semicolon and the letter P to represent a wink and stuck out tongue face, then the animated smileys are your saving grace.

There are a number of different ways to get great smiley animations. There are the smileys that come as part of your IM/email tandem- and they all basically have some action depending on the internet service provider that you are using. For some ISPs, the animated smileys behave in tandem with the icon that you choose to dress up your IM window. But, if you are sick of those choices or just want smiley animations that do a little more, you can search for them online. Occasionally, you will be able to download new ones as part of a promotion for toolbars or other widgets. Some companies will use the prospect of getting new smileys to lure customers to their websites.

Some of the best animated smileys have a better appearance than the basic types- some with glitter, some dancing across the screen and some doing a little of everything. Imagine telling someone that you love “happy birthday” using a pair of smiley animations with hearts for eyes, beating hearts and signs that say “I love you” and then adding smiley animations such as bananas with sneakers that have the birthday message while they dance and shimmy around. Everyone likes to see that!