While playing with Facebook Chat I wondered if it supported emoticons. Turns out it does. But when I tried the >:-) emoticon (a 'devil') and saw it printed as boring text, I wondered, "what smilies does facebook actually support?"

So with the help of Safari and some javascript hacking I present to you a complete list of facebook emoticons.

smile

:-) :) :] =)

frown

:-( :( :[ =(

tongue

:-P :P :-p :p =P

grin

:-D :D =D

gasp

:-O :O :-o :o

wink

;-) ;)

glasses

8-) 8) B-) B)

sunglasses

8-| 8| B-| B|

grumpy

>:( >:-(

unsure

:/ :-/ :\ :-\

cry

:'(

devil

3:) 3:-)

angel

O:) O:-)

kiss

:-* :*

heart

<3

kiki

^_^

squint

-_-

confused

o.O O.o

upset

>:O >:-O >:o >:-o

pacman

:v

curly lips

:3

robot

:|]

Chris Putnam

:putnam:

Shark

(^^^)

Penguin

<(")

42

:42:

Thumb

(Y) (y)

Some Facebook users have created their own emoticons for Facebook chat. They are created by setting up a user in Facebook with the emoticon set as the user profile image and using the square brackets to embed them in a chat. E.g: My profile image can be embedded in a chat using [[caleb.brown]].

Here is a collection of some emoticons that are created using user profile images.

Rock Sign

[[roxsign]]

Middle Finger

[[midfing]]

Enjoy.

Updated 21 July 2008: Moved B-) and B) from sunglasses to glasses and cleaned up formatting.
Updated 20 November 2008: Fixed spelling of tongue.
Updated 18 May 2009: Added the Shark.
Updated 21 September 2009: Added the Penguin. Thanks to everyone who let me know in the comments.
Updated 3 February 2010: Added the 42.
Updated 8 May 2012: Added the (Y).
Updated 28 November 2012: Added a section about user built emoticons and added some examples: [[roxsign]] and [[midfing]] (thanks @RachelWalker099).