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Undoubtedly, new technologies and all the tailwind that they brought has imposed new ways at the time of the communication Y expression from emotions Between people. And of course, just as when we are sad, people express it to those close to us through crying, tears, and if on the contrary we are happy with laughter and smiles, it was necessary that in social networks, in forums, in messages from text, in the email and in chat systems, among others, we also have the most expressive way of doing it and that is precisely the mission of the emoticons.

The emoticon is a human face that expresses a emotion positive or, failing that, negative and this has been precisely the motivation development, mimic the facial expression or emotion of a human. So if we want to tell someone via chat that we are happy and happy because something nice happened to us, we will put the smiley face while we are in the antipodes of it, that is to say, sad, because for example something ugly happened to us, he will put on the emoticon that cries or has dull eyes as well as his smile.

Now, the emoticon does not only have the function of communicating an emotion, but it also satisfactorily fulfills the need sometimes imposed by electronic or mobile communication to do it in an abbreviated way and obviously an emoticon that communicates sadness or joy it helps to be more specific, forceful in the message, in addition to contributing to the saving of characters, which in sms or tweets are really very few available.

But of course, how the possibilities offered to us in terms of developing programs and new technologies associated with all forms of electronic or mobile communication is certainly fantastic, the basic and traditional emoticons that express only emotions have been joined by hundreds more who know how to express actions, movements and much more.

It is worth noting that the name of emoticon is not accidental but arose from the union of the two concepts that these particular computer faces represent: emotion and icon.