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Can I use emoticons [with Google Chat]?
Yes. Emoticons make your chats funnier.
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December 1st, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Cry. Many applications and web services are bloated just to use emoticons.
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:51 am
I think you should laugh. Emoticons provide inflections to chat conversations that would be conveyed in speech by tone of voice. They are a way of enhancing the meanings that can be conveyed in chat, making it more like a speech conversation. I find the emoticons
and 
to be particularly useful.