For many people Facebook is an unchangeable part of their lives, and because of this people have begun to recognize Facebook emoticons more and more each day. Many people think that these tiny Facebook chat emoticons are more recognizable than the ones offered by Myspace.
Facebook emoticons
Have you ever wondered where all those character emoticons come from? For example, did you ever wonder what caused Facebook to even introduce pictures into the chatting sessions of their users?
Facebook emoticons
Before Facebook there was Myspace. Five years ago Myspace was the main source for social networking. When myspace first came out it ruined other social networking sites such as friendster and Hi5. The reason being because numbers over power win every time. However myspace did make some mistakes.
The reason myspace became so popular was it gave a way for people to communicate with many friends very easily. People already knew about email and even using MSN chat sessions however with myspace users could combine both photos and chatting and even networking ( meet new people) And that made them the head of the pack. However their were number of problems. Myspace gained many subscribers and thus people began feeling small. Some people wanted to earn as many friends as they could while others wants to comment on others pages to market themselves or even their products. People on myspace wanted something completely different and completely their own.
This is where Facebook comes in. The site was started on the campus of Harvard University so that friends has a way to keep in touch and a way to organize their social calendar. The design of the site was clear and easy to understand. It was simple to use and no one had to question it. Soon the site was opened to the public.
Facebook met the goal of getting users of myspace to use them while still offering the same product with a much simpler system. Facebook also keep tight on their main goal;to make the site easy to use and bring people together online.
Facebook introduced their chat system two year ago. Those who tested it enjoyed its simple and basic look but was worried it was a mistake to add it. Soon people realized the added bells and whistles of other chat programs ( like yahoo and msn ) were really not needed and just added distractions. All they really wanted was a way to communicate with others.
Facebook also knew that people enjoyed using icons and smilies. So they quickly started installing several hidden smilies users could only use when they typed in a certain code. Some people got excited when they found them by accident other knew them right away by looking for list of codes on other websites. Facebook chat emoticons quickly have become a part of the very popular social networks vocabulary.