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There are many reasons why cool symbols are used during conversations. The most popular reason is that people can express themselves. This is huge for ones that are shy and might not always know what to say. What if you are just feeling tired and not sure how to say something because of that? I know that I’ve been there myself plenty of times and grateful for the chat symbols.

Do you know that there are some people who don’t use chat symbols for messenger? You can use them for lots of other reasons. There are some that use it on their Facebook page, MySpace page, or Twitter. They do it when they are sending notes to friends, or when they are updating their page. With Twitter you are limited with how much you can say per note so these cool symbols can really help when you are trying to express how happy or angry you are about something.

Cool symbols

Below are five of the top cool symbols and emoticons that are used. Just copy and paste them in your messenger, profiles or pages and you are good to go. Your friends are going to be surprised that you might know more then them when they see you use symbols that they don’t know about. It’s up to you if you feel like sharing your secret!

Cool Symbols

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Bandaid

When I saw someone use this on their messenger I knew right away that they had been hurt. Sure enough when I sent them a message they said that they had fallen down and hurt themselves. They needed a bandaid and could not find one but could find one on the computer. Thankfully, they are now doing fine but it was the first time I had ever seen the bandaid symbol used on the computer. You can also use it to let your friends know that you have a broken heart and need a bandaid on it.

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Angelic

There are times when we just feel angelic. Did you just help someone out or maybe you scored the highest in the class. Whatever your reasons are for feeling angelic you can make your friends envy you with this emoticon.

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Bored

Are your friends causing you to be bored with a conversation that they are going on and on about? When the conversation gets so boring that you are almost falling asleep then perhaps you should tell them with this symbol.

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Pepsi or a can of Coke?

Do you like Pepsi, or do you like Coke? Just thinking about it makes me want one but I can’t decide! Take a vote with your friends and see what drink wins!

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Angry

Did one of your friends just say something that made you really angry? What if you just got into a fight with your parents or best friend? You can let your friends know just how angry you are so that way they might be careful when talking with you.

These are a few cool symbols, but you can find many more emoticons and smileys over at Cool symbols (the address is http://www.coolsymbols.net). There are loads to choose from, so check them out!

Facebook smileys are tiny smiley faces which I like to add to my Facebook chat window to add some fun to them! They’re quite a new addition, but have soon become an everyday thing for anyone who uses the chat function on Facebook on the biggest site for keeping on contact with people in the entire world.

Facebook smileys

Facebook smileys

Why are Facebook icons not shown?

This is a puzzler that has surely long puzzled those who enjoy using popular internet sites. Why, if there are options such as smileys available, would the world’s most popular social network not tell the users how to use them? The real solution is clear – if you tell users how to insert them you clutter the UI and make it messy and dirtier. You also would make a more cluttered and less clear website – something that Facebook in particular has been trying to avoid with their site. It sets them apart, and makes them different. In actuality, it’s a very smart take on making a social networking.

Tell me what different different Facebook emoticons are available?

There are many, many emotes available for you to use, but sadly people can’t incorporate them in your Facebook update message or on other Facebookers walls. Right now, the only way to see these Facebook smileys is to use Facebook chat (which you can see in the bottom right of your home page, in the newly unleashed ‘Facebook bar’ that can be seen when you first log in).

This is just a brief introduction to Facebook chat smileys, in a future post I will school you a bit more on the subject of which ones are available and how to get them in your chats!

An internet campaign was the impetus behind the Christmas number one single competition in the UK being won by Rage Against The Machine, and not the widely expected winner of the popular X Factor television show, Joe McElderry.

In recent years, the winner of the televised talent show has been the most popular single in the Christmas chart, usually beating its opponents by numbers ranging in the hundreds of thousands. But this year, the power of Facebook, social networking and MSN has been harnessed by a couple working from their kitchen.

Facebook and Twitter campaign wins Christmas number one in UK

The campaign began because they viewed Christmas as a sacred time, and they thought that the race for Christmas number 1 had been all but destroyed by the popoularity of the television show. With this idea in mind they created a Facebook group encouraging people to boycott buying the X-Factor single and directing people to buy the Rage Against The Machine effort instead.

The messages were sent in large part via Facebook chat, and support was also shown in people’s status messages and updates. Myspace was also leveraged in the plan to good effect, as was Twitter – with thousands of tweets during the week urging people to go out and buy the single, or download it. The Rage Against The Machine single set a new record for single sales in its first week in the UK.

With more than 600,000 tracks bought, the only true winners in this case are the record companies, who have made a bundle of money on the back of both campaigns. What is most suprising is that people were so quick to buy the RATM single which does not seem to be extremely ‘Chistmasey’ in spirit.

The power of social networking is clear when it comes to situations such as this, where mobilizing large numbers of people to act is just the click of a mouse away. It remains to be seen if this sort of mobilization is anything more than a fad, or if can be used for something more constructive such as raising money for charity in the coming months and years.