When you use smileys, do you really MEAN them?

Yes, yes, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! I use them a lot and whenever I do then I am always doing EXACTLY what the smilie says I'm doing and my neighbours can confirm that I DO laugh! Do I whistle? If I put the whistel smilies then yes I am whistling and if you watch my eyes in my avatar, they are also wandering while I whistle If you see me use the red one then it is becuase I am really cheesed off about something or with someone. Takes a lot to get me into that state but when it happens... I also make a lot of typos too

I have a long way to go I think as I have yet to reach 500 but I have a convincing way to write which obviates the need for simileys. I wonder what smiley would have suited this answer. 'Smart Alec' perhaps?!!!

I use the smileys alot as I find them fun and can be used to get a point across that could be misinterpreted. As for making the same face as them I don't really know but I am sure I have made some of the faces at times in discussions and meant it. I don't always laugh out loud but I do hope to most of the time I am on here. I like this one the best and I think I do make this face alot now that I think about

OF COURSE!! and with that I am honest to goodness. I like the fact that there are smileys or icons since it enables us to express the things that we sometimes have difficulty expressing in words. (Just like that red-colored angry face, which shows really how furious you are about something) As always, non-verbal forms of communication can say a lot more!!

Smileys, expressed or illustrated your mood but most of the time it's way of creating fun or word cartoon.

Yes when i use smileys, i really mean them. But i also use them to pamper somebody and also to over impose my feeling.

If I am chatting on aol or facebook and I write a smiley then yes I really mean the face I put. If I didn't mean it I would put it up. If I add a smiley then that is what I am doing is smiling so I put it. On another note if I write LOL I really am laughing out loud most of the time. Not always sometimes I just find something funny so I write LOL but usually if I write LOL I usually am realling laughing out loud. If I write lmao or lmfao then that is exactly what I am doing. If something is so funny that I write lmao or lmfao then I really am sitting there laughing over it.

When I use the smiley, I may not be actually sitting here smiling to myself but I am feeling it. I certainly am never angry when I add a smiley. I smile a lot by nature and add smileys to all my notes anyway....adding a smiley here just comes natural. I very rarely use the LOL but when I do...I've probably actually laughed or at least giggled. The whistle...no I don't actually whistle but again...feel like it. they are just images to show on line what you are feeling....most people don't actually sit here and act out those emotions....just feel them. Kine of like the words we type here...we aren't really saying them are we? so it's like that.

Usually yes, I mean them. I think they help say how we feel. When on mylot I know I find posts that actually do have me laughing out loud. I guess it just depends on the situation.

Yes when i use the smiley i always mean it but i use it on the keyboard I don't know how to use the other ones:}

I use LOL a lot and it's just really to signify that I am really having a good laugh. I don't quite use a lot of emoticons here in mylot since I am still unable to but I really am not fond of using them anywhere else anyway. I just use " :) " and " :( " which for me are very generic . I just use them to further show how happy/glad or how sad I am especially when words aren't enough. They don't really show exactly how I feel but at least they give other people a clue.

yes i do. it represent my feel at that moment, i mean the time when i wrote it.

I think i mean it when I use smiley. I use them to express my emotions. My face does not become red literally it is true but I use it to express my inner feeling. i believe most of the people mean when they use smileys

I usually mean it when I use smileys...I normally use happy or sad face, As I do in real life too.

sure we do mean when using smileys...atleast i do...it gives emotion to the emotionless sentences dnt u agree...it giv the state of the person using it...giving a life to the communication...which other wise would be plain lines...

I really feel like my smiley... If I am happy, then I place a happy face, when sad then sad face... I think it is a really great possibility to show your emotions on internet as you don' t see that other person face in face :D

Yessssssssssssssssss I do :-)

This is a good question. We all have wondered the same in MSN or while using our profile in one of those social networking sites. To tell you the truth I like using very exaggerated smileys, but I tend to have a straight face most of the times I use a laughing smiley. Some people deny it, but I bet most uf us are the same. lol

Most of the time, I do mean them, but they're exaggerated. Like at times I just put it so they think that I'm actually doing that face but in front of the computer screen I'm just like =| . And I put "lol" just to fill in conversations at times, like if I don't know what to say or even when something's not that funny. But then again, I mean my smileys a lot of the time like I'm happy i'll put =D , =] , ^^ , x]. And some smileys are just like, i-dont-know-what-to-say kind of thing, like "xD" aha. But yeah, smileys are full of trickeries.

ofcourse, but my face dont turn that much red and exatly to that shape. but obviously it turns somewhat..