The word ecoticon come from an amalgamation of two words: Emotion and Icon. Emoticons are symbols or combinations of symbols used to show an emotion within written text or messages.
In many internet forums, guestbooks, online games and instant messengers the smiley or emoticon is typed as a keyboard character by users to purvey how they are feeling about a particular subject. Most of these characters will convert to image emoticons often called smilies or smileys.The basic smiley face emoticon consists of a cartoon graphic of yellow face with a smile. This has evolved over many years of use far beyond expressions of emotion including crying, frowns, angry, love: with many more smiley icons and smilies available to download performing a vast array of actions.
Keyboard symbols and codes to produce emoticons and smilies? Visit our emoticons code page.