Make your forum posts, emails or IMs more exciting with an emoticon. Emoticons are a type of small computer generated graphic that are able to express for you how you feel when you write. Anyone, even those who have never tried before, can use a smiley.

Adding a smiley to your message is a great way to make the person you are sending it to feel happy. Smiles are infectious, even computer generated ones.

There are times when words just wont do. A smiley or computer graphic can be the best solution to letting someone know how you feel. Sending hearts or a teddy bear hug graphic is a sure way to let your crush know youre interested.

Emoticons and smileys can also save you from the uncomfortable embarrassment of trying to say or write to someone how you feel. If your innocent advances are not well received, you can always say you hit the wrong key or were just joking around.

There are many places on the web were you can download smileys and emoticons. One great site for this is smileyCentral. They have unique graphics you will find no where else on the web and have over 10,000 for you to choose from.

SmileyCentral also allows you to choose emoticons that you can use on your specific communication software. Unlike other sites that offer only a few graphics for specific users, SmileyCentral has a great selection of emoticons for use on AIM, MSN IM, Yahoo! IM, ICQ, and Outlook Express.

SmileyCentral is easy to use. You download a smiley toolbar which is automatically updated with new computer graphics. This way you can search for that special graphic you have been looking for whenever you like.

If you are new to the smiley and emoticon world, you should definitely try them out. Every day there are new graphics added, so you are sure to find hundreds, even thousands, that you love, and will make whatever it is that youre doing, be it emailing, IMing, or forum posting, that much more fun.