Don't understand what ;o) etc means

Don'tskipit

Can somebody please explain to a non techi like me what symbols like ;o) etc mean

Gra76

Crane your neck 90 degrees anticlockwise and what does it look like.... it's supposed to look like someones face winking at you, there's a lot of different ways of doing different expressions. They're called emoticons.

Here's a link which might help out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon

and a list of plenty of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons

paddyrg

;-) or ;o) That's a happy winking face!

:-) (smiley)
:-P (tongue out)

bengalknights

(_!_) thats a backside lol

esuhl

I read an interesting article a while back comparing Western and Japanese emoticons... Our "smileys" tended to be on their sides and the mouth gave most clues as to the emotion being expressed; while Japanese emoticons appear vertically and tend to express emotion mainly through they eyes...

There's a few Japanese emoticons here (some of which I really wouldn't have understood without an explanation!):

http://www.cool-smileys.com/japanese-text-emoticons

anonamoose

(.)(.) ;-)

WelshPaul

anonamoose wrote: »

(.)(.) ;-)

You like them small, i like em big ( . )( . ) ;o)