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Do you mean you use smileys like :) :( :P ?

Emotions were the little images you could place amongst text in MSN Messenger.



As far as I recall it was pretty common to call :-) etc emoticons back in the day. Like 1990s/early 2000s.


Emoticons were originally and predominately text based ¯\_(-_-)_/¯




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