because if people don't want to talk over the phone they text so if they are texting they may want to still be able to show some emotion then they use them.:)
Emoticons can be used in informal communication, such as texting, instant messaging, or social media, to convey emotions or tone that may not come across clearly through text alone. They can help add context or humor to a message.
Gmail contains a lot of emoticons too. You can use them while writing mails to someone. The emoticons can be obtained by clicking on the smiley,
emoticons
Emoticons are included in every mail. They can be inserted via the bottom of compose mail. The smiley icon has all the emoticons.
There are probably emoticons out there for baseball. Many websites provide different emoticons, I would suggest Googling emoticons.
All the faces on Gmail are called as Emoticons. These emoticons contains many emotions. These might include happy, sad , crying, angry etc.
They think it makes the conversations more interesting to look at. Not all girls do use that many emoticons though.
you can make your own emoticons
There are many websites that allow the download of free emoticons, as well as several apps listed on both iTunes and Google Play. My Emoticons, Find Icons and Iminent are all websites that have emoticon icons for free.
emoticons of the mobile himselve, and they are really ugly :(
it means your mom.
Emoticons can be used the same way in Kindle. They are graphical images which can be used. These emoticons contain plenty of images of faces.