Smilies in the mobile version of classmates. The meaning of emoticons in Odnoklassniki: transcript. Basic emoticons and their meaning

An emoticon is a set of symbols, or an icon, that is a visual representation of a facial expression or body position to convey a mood, attitude, or emotion originally used in messages email and text messages. The most famous is the smiley face, i.e. smile - :-).

There is no clear and reliable evidence of who invented the smiley face. Of course, you can point to ancient excavations, finds of various inscriptions on the rocks, etc., but these will only be guesses of each of us.

Of course, to say for sure that the smiley is a modern invention is a bit wrong. The use of emoticons can be traced back to the 19th century. Examples of their use can be found in a copy of the American magazine Puck from 1881, see example:

Yes, there are a lot of such examples in history, but it is generally believed that Scott Fahlman, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, was responsible for the first digital form of a smiley. He suggested to distinguish serious messages from frivolous in their means of using emoticons :-) and :-(. It was already September 19, 1982. This is especially useful when the mood of your message may be misinterpreted.

YES BUT YOU NEVER COME ON TIME, ANYWHERE.

YES, BUT YOU NEVER COME ON TIME, ANYWHERE. ;-)

However, emoticons did not become so popular, but revealed their potential after 14 years, thanks to a Frenchman who lived in London - Nicolas Laufrani... The idea arose even earlier, with Nicolas's father, Franklin Laufrani. It was he who, as a journalist for the French newspaper France Soir, published an article on January 1, 1972, under the headline "Take time to smile!", Where he used emoticons to highlight his article. Later he patented it as a trademark and created the production of some goods using a smiley. Then a company was created under the brand name Smiley, where the father Franklin Laufrani became the president, and the son of Nicolas Laufrani became the CEO.

It was Nicolas who noticed the popularity of ASCII emoticons, which were very much used on mobile phones, and began developing directly animated emoticons that would correspond to ASCII emoticons consisting of simple characters, i.e. what we now use and used to call - smiley... He created a catalog of emoticons, which he divided into categories "Emotions", "Holidays", "Food", etc. And in 1997, this catalog was registered with the US Copyright Office.

Around the same time in Japan, Shigetaka Kurita began designing emoticons for I-mode. But unfortunately, the widespread use of this project did not happen. Maybe because in 2001, Laufrani's creation was licensed by Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, and other manufacturers. mobile phoneswho later started offering them to their users. After that, the world was just inundated with various interpretations of emoticons and emoticons.

The following variations with greases and emoticons became the appearance stickers in 2011. They were created by the leading Internet company in Korea - Naver. The company has developed a messaging platform called - Line... Same messaging app as WhatsApp. LINE was developed in the months following the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Initially, LIne was created to find friends and relatives during and after natural disasters and in the first year, the number of users grew to 50 million. After, with the publication of games and stickers, it totaled more than 400 million, which later became one of the most popular apps in Japan, especially among teenagers.

Emoticons, emoticons and stickers today,more than 30 years later, they began to take a place in everyday conversations and correspondence of people. According to studies conducted in the United States, it was found that 74 percent of people in the United States regularly use stickers, emoticons in their online communication, sending an average of 96 emoticons or stickers per day. The reason for this explosive use Emoji is that creative characters developed by various companies help to express our feelings, help to add humor, sadness, happiness, etc.

The emoticons in the tables will be gradually replenished, so go to the site and look for the meaning of the desired emoticons.

When talking to a person in person, you can easily express your emotions on your face and the interlocutor will immediately understand what you are feeling or want to say. However, in our time, communication through various social networks is gaining more and more popularity. And in order to make communication as convenient and colorful as possible, they came up with smileys.

They are stylized graphic images, namely, a cartoon face that expresses various emotions, such as joy, anger, anger, admiration and others. Thanks to this, you can very easily understand the mood of a person and shorten your message at times, which makes communication more exciting. Also, if you somehow managed to contact a foreigner, but you do not know the language in which he speaks, then emoticons will be of great help, since they are international a means of communication.

A bit of history

In the 17th century in Slovakia, emoticons were used to convey positive emotions... The eccentric play "In Futurum", written by Erwin Schulhof in 1919, contains 4 emoticons that convey different emotions. The film "Port City" also stood out with a smile, only he expressed agonizing despair.

The stylized image was used in the films Lily (1953) and Zhizhi (1958). It was no longer an expression of sorrow, but an expression of happiness. The image of smiles is further popularized and various well-known companies and brands do not hesitate to use them in their everyday life. They are used in many films and TV series, including Forest Gump. Also, from 2005 to 2013 the smiley becomes the emblem of the All-Russian youth forum Seliger.

Basic emoticons and their meaning

• 🙂 - means smile at the interlocutor
• 🙂 — smile, but only for a lazy interlocutor
• ) — smile a very lazy or very tired interlocutor
• ,-) - means wink
• 😉 - also wink
• :- > — sarcasm
• (-: - also means smile, only differs from the first in that it is left-handed
• 🙁 - expresses sadness
• : < - expresses even more sadnessthan the previous
• :FROM - also sadness
• :-* - means kiss
• :* — kiss... A more simplified version

How to insert VKontakte emoticons

If you want to insert a graphical VKontakte emoticon, then you need to look at the table attached below, select the appropriate type of your message and insert the smiley into the message, everything is extremely simple. Just don't forget put a space between words and smiles, otherwise VKontakte will not recognize them. You are probably confused by what VKontakte interprets emoticons into pictures. The thing is that Emoji Are symbols of any Unicode font that exist on any gadget. AND text smilies Is an unofficial interpretation of Emoji.

How to insert emoticons into VK status

There are several options for inserting emoticons into a status.

Decoding basic emoticons

This table contains frequently used emoticons on VKontakte. For new users or just for those who want to get to know this topic better, this will be an excellent assistant.

Smilies were invented for a very long time and since then have been successfully used in all social networks, messengers and other resources where you can leave comments. With their help, users can convey their emotions to the interlocutor in more detail. They are small icons in the form of a square or a circle for standard emoji. But over time, emoticons in pictures appeared in classmates, and not every user was able to figure out the meaning of all of them.

A large number of emoticons on the OK social network are free, but there are also a number of special kits that can be purchased for a certain period of use. They are not used so often, but if you want to surprise your friends, this service will suit like nothing else.

Almost immediately after the opening of the OK social network, paid emoticons appeared here. After activating the service, they will be available to the user for a period of 50 days. After that it can be renewed. Such badges can be sent to all friends, left on the forum and in the comments. To use this service, you need to do the following:

1. First you need to go to Odnoklassniki, and then to messages or comments. On the right side of the field where you need to enter messages, you should find the button "Additional emoticons", and in the window that appears, click the button "All emoticons".
2. After that, another window will open, where at the bottom there will be a button "Suggest your smiley".
3. After clicking on it, on next page the "Order" button will appear.
4. To do this, the profile account must have at least 20 OC. From this moment the service will be activated.

Now the user will be able to send original pictures with congratulations and various emotions.

Note! If the user pays 20 OK, the paid emoji will be available for a maximum of 10 days. If this period is not enough, the amount of local currency must be increased at the time of ordering.

How to add smilies for free

If a person has enough free emoticons, he will also have the opportunity to increase their number, for this you will need the following:

• if used chrome browser, first you need to open the menu;
• then go to the section "Tools and extensions";
• when will it open new tab, the page should be scrolled down;
• then you need to go to the extension store;
• in the search field, enter the query “stickers for OK;
• several extensions will appear in the search results, here you can choose any one you like;
• when the user has made a choice, you need to install the extension into the browser. After it is recommended to restart.

If everything is done correctly, a fairly large number of Emoji sets for social networks will be available to the user without any registrations and additional payments.

Emoji characters

If, for some reason, a person in Odnoklassniki with the proposed standard sticker, this can be done using symbols. To do this, you just need to select several symbols on the keyboard and arrange them in a certain sequence. These emoji look like this:

Decoding emoticons

There are a number of emojis that cannot be set using a symbol, for example, smiley ok. This will require graphic image, but not everyone knows what it looks like. To understand the meaning of all the stickers, before using unfamiliar emoji, you can search the Internet for information and read what these emoticons mean and their exact decoding. The most common ones are as follows.

This instruction is about how to learn how to animate the correspondence on the Odnoklassniki social network with emoticons and stickers.

Smilies (symbols), emojis (improved smiley pictures) and stickers (pictures) can make any correspondence with friends more fun and direct.

There are so many emoticons and emojis that they are suitable for every occasion and every conversation.

You can wish good morning to your loved one by sending them a sticker with a wish, or invite them to have breakfast together by sending emoji depicting coffee and scrambled eggs.

With the help of smiles and emojis, you can express a large number of emotions, intentions and ideas, so they are:

• emotional (express a range of emotions from positive to negative)
• subject (images of various objects)
• symbols (heart, arrows)
• depicting food
• images of animals, cars, flags, etc.
• animated.

Stickers are large pictures that imitate real sticker stickers depicting various cartoon characters or animals expressing various emotions, feelings, experiences and wishes.

Messages with stickers and emoticons are perceived more interesting and positive, choosing the right sticker or emoji, you will be able to quickly win over any person.

The main thing is not to abuse them in business correspondence :)

How to insert stickers and emoticons in OK.RU messages

Step # 1

We enter your profile. It's great if you learned how to do this without constantly entering your login / password, but using the remember function in the browser.

If you don't know how to make the browser remember your password,.

Step # 2

To write a message, you need to click on the icon representing an envelope in the top menu bar.

Step # 3

A dialog box opens where you need to select the interlocutor to whom we will send messages. Below we see a line for entering a message. We will write text and insert smiles into it.

Step # 4

To add a smiley to a message, you need to click on the icon depicting a standard smiley (next to the image of a paper clip).

Step # 5

In the window that opens, we see two tabs - “stickers” and “emoticons” - select emoticons.

Step 6

To insert a smiley into a message, click on any one you like (or several), and they will immediately appear in the line for entering text.

Step 7

Now let's move on to inserting stickers into the message. In classmates, some types of stickers are paid, but some can be used by subscribing to stickers in OK.

Click again on the smiley icon and select the “Stickers” tab.

Click on any one, a window opens where we are invited to subscribe to stickers for Odnoklassniki's currency - "ok".

You can try to use stickers for free for three days, but for this you have to indicate the number bank card, from which, after three days, oki will be debited (in rubles) at the standard price in OK.RU.

Step 8

Classmates have a wide variety of stickers that you need to subscribe to. New, more interesting and relevant ones are constantly added.

Step 9

A large window opens with stickers and the ability to subscribe to them. After clicking on the "Subscribe" link, a standard sticker subscription window opens (screenshot above).

Step 10

Regardless of what you inserted into the message - stickers or emoji emoticons, to send a message, you need to click on the envelope next to the line for the text, or, after entering the message, inserting emoticons and attaching stickers, press the Enter key.

We hope the tutorial was interesting and useful.

In the following articles, we will tell you how to attach files and documents, video and audio to messages, as well as various other functions in Odnoklassniki.

Smilies on Odnoklassniki are an opportunity to talk about your emotions. They are small icons, it is suggested to use them when exchanging messages. But there are many additional questions regarding emoji in pictures.

• Communication and exchange of smilies in messages.
• You can collect lists of friends, contacts for correspondence.
• It is suggested to listen to your favorite music.
• There is a video service.
• Browse communities and share information.
• Simple and interesting browser games are offered.
• There is the possibility of streaming.

Why is OK popular?

1. The social network has gathered a permanent audience.
2. Has a nice interface.
3. It's easy to learn.
4. Provides a set of important functions.
5. At the moment, OK is a complete social network with all features.

What are smilies used for?

• To express emotions.
• Animated and regular emoticons allow you to complement your message.
• They better convey the meaning of the message.
• Can be used as independent characters without text.

Let's immediately determine that there are emoticons and stickers. The first category includes small icons with faces. The second - various pictures. They have similar functions, but differ in name and design. In OK, the elements are placed in different points for convenience.

Designation of emoticons in Odnoklassniki

It is easy to understand the meaning of emoticons in Odnoklassniki. They express emotions as much as possible, most users do not need additional prompts. So it's unclear who might be interested in the decryption.

But if you are still looking for meaning, then we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the following picture:

There are also new emoticons, very similar to analogs from VK. It is easy to understand what the elements mean, just look at them.

Smilies on Odnoklassniki: codes

We warn you right away: it is better to place elements using standard tool in messages. The reasons are as follows:

1. Not everyone can remember all the codes.
2. If you miss one item, the smiley will not be displayed.
3. For many people, the option is too complicated, it's faster to use the built-in tool.
4. You can mix up the signs and get a different smiley as a result.

Therefore, when forming a message, it is better to go to a special section and select the necessary designations. But if you are still interested in text codes, then they are as follows:

Follow the spelling of all signs, they must correspond to the table. One missing item and no emoji will show. So be careful when preparing.

Install free emoticons on Odnoklassniki

You don't have to ask how to disable them - there is no such function. Smilies are available to all users. If you do not need them, then it is enough just not to go to this item.

Emojis are available for free. You don't have to pay for badges additional funds... Alternatively, sticker packs are sold separately.

You can download them, follow the instructions:

• Open the Chrome menu.
• Find additional tools and extensions.
• In the tab that appears, scroll down the page.
• Go to the extension store.
• Enter a search term, for example, sticker sets for OK.
• You will be offered a number of extensions, choose the appropriate one.
• Install the browser add-on.
• It is recommended to restart the program.
• You will receive all free kits without registration.

Important: closed paid collections of stickers still need to be bought separately. The OK limits the possibility of their use without depositing funds. You will receive exclusively free messaging kits.

How to deliver?

How to use the elements in the future? The process is simple:

1. Go to messages.
2. Enter your text.
3. Open the emoji item.
4. Add the required one.
5. You can switch to stickers. But they are sent separately, without text.

You learned about the meaning, codes, the difference between emoji and stickers, the possibilities of use. With the help of these elements, it is possible to diversify messages and bring new emotions into communication.

Using keyboards

Many keyboards for smartphones contain emojis. With their help, it is possible to quickly exchange icons. The user will need:

• Download a keyboard with a similar function. Gboard is fine. standard program for Android.
• Open the emoji section.
• Choose the right one.
• Add to message.
• Send.

Important - standard icons are supported by all social networks and instant messengers. Using the keyboard, it is possible to exchange emoji when communicating in various applications and covers basic needs.