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