Though certain emoticons were banned from being used, secret Skype emoticons are still rampant and visible on other websites.

Mansfield, OH -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/16/2014 -- Chat and text could never be as interesting and engaging as it is without this pictorial representation of facial expression, called emoticons, that manage to cope and fill in certain 'nuances and subtleties', as Sociology professor Ben Agger at the University of Texas has mentioned, that many people are lacking in a face-to-face or voice-to-voice communication. As if, emoticons were created to make up for such estrangement.

The use of emoticons as a tool in expressing oneself beyond words began with an awkward moment online in the early 1980s. A computer scientist communicating with others in a forum sensed that words are failing him. He found it difficult to convey messages/post that is meant to be taken as a joke and so he strung together a colon, a dash and a bracket to make what is now known as the 'smiley face'.

The strong influence of emoticon on written communication became the foundation of many to create more emoticons that would complement everyone's mood. Even in various social media, particularly Facebook, emoticons are widely used in expressing how they feel. They link writing from emotion that helps prevent any misunderstandings that can be gained from plain texts. A variety of emoticons were introduced, from the basic facial expressions to numerous nation flags.

A lot of advantages of using emoticons were identified such as;

- Negative feedback delivered were being accepted (as long as the feedback is specific).
- Students are more willing to participate in class activities when emoticons were utilized in online discussions
- Help identify a person online (according to a study, women highly use emoticons on the conversations than men)
- Provokes brain activity the same as when people look at a human face.

However, the viral use of emoticons on conversations, specifically in Skype, has made several users to get enraged after Microsoft, (bought Skype in 2011 to replace the Windows Live Messenger), deliberately removed and banned certain emoticons that seems to be offensive, such as an icon containing a face and a middle finger, the angry face, a pair of woman's leg, and the 'fubar' icon. Yet, many Skype users have noted that certain emoticons in the list are far more offensive than the banned ones, which are the vomiting, mooning and smoking.

Microsoft believes that having these banned emoticons to be used in conversations is somehow rude and totally inappropriate. The community manager on the Skype sees these short codes that were removed from the product updates are 'having the potential to offend some users'. On the other hand, people who approve the use of the banned emoticons have said that those icons are the fun way to express their selves to their friends and colleague. Moreover, people are not forced to talk to anyone who uses languages that they don't like.

Though certain emoticons were banned from being used, secret Skype emoticons are still rampant and visible on other websites. Some offered free download of it while few provides the short codes to be typed or pasted in the comment or chat boxes. Thus, many still use such emoticons to express their selves in an uncontrolled environment.

About Secret-Emoticons.com
Each Skype emoticon is represented by a code or a specific word in the brackets. To apply these Skype smileys, we just copy code and paste it at Skype chat. Secret-Emoticons.com offers a wide variety of emoticons where we can just click on these emoticons to copy the code.

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Secret-Emoticons.com revealed the numerous Skype features that not everyone is aware of. These features are primarily intended to make communication via Skype not only more convenient for us, but these features make our conversations more personalized and more efficient.

Mansfield, OH -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/25/2014 -- We all know that Skype can be useful in communicating with other people especially when we are far away from our loved ones. Thanks to our modern technology, we can use Skype wherever we are – whether we are using desktop, laptop, or mobile phones.

Skype hosts a number of features that not everyone is aware of. These features are primarily intended to make communication via Skype not only more convenient for us, but these features make our conversations more personalized and more efficient.

Here are some of the cool features of Skype that might not be well-known by many but once discovered would surely benefit for whatever purpose they will use Skype for:

Hidden Emoticons or Secret Skype emoticons . Skype has many different emoticons for us to use but what some of us don't know about these cool emoticons is that it has this secret Skype emoticons that we can use for chatting with our friends or contacts. They actually don't appear on our lists of emoticons and using them entail certain commands. An example is the "drunk" emoticon wherein we can just type (drunk) to display an emoticon for drunk. Most of the emoticons are kind of rude so be careful of the emoticon to use as not everyone would appreciate an offensive emoticon.

Hotkeys. Skype has a number of hotkeys and not everyone is aware of them. It has option for "push talk". Just open the options menu and click on" advance" and click on "hotkeys" then click on "enable short cuts". Doing this would enable the "push talk" feature of Skype.

Screen Sharing. People who are using Skype for business purposes are definitely aware of this. The "share screen" feature of Skype enables one to display a live stream of his computer screen to another person where he can also send pictures, videos, and even presentations.

Send Contacts. Another useful feature of Skype is that we can send our friends' contact information to another contact. Instead of telling our friends to find the account name of our other contacts in Skype database, we can actually right click the name of our contact and find send contact option.

Edit the messages. Skype gives us the ability to delete a message eventhough we have already sent these messages to them. This can be done via pressing "up" on the keyboard with the input box selected. However, Skype merely allows us to edit the recent messages. So there must still be some level of cautiousness when sending messages.

Customising Fonts. This cool feature of Skype is used for customizing fonts. We can actually change the styles and colors we want to use to make our chat box look more appealing. To change or customize the font, we just need to go to "Tools" then "Options", then click on "IM&SMS" and select "IM appearance". We can then change the font depending on our own preference.

About Secret-Emoticons.com
Each Skype emoticon is represented by a code or a specific word in the brackets. To apply these Skype smileys, we just copy code and paste it at Skype chat. Secret-Emoticons.com offers a wide variety of emoticons where we can just click on these emoticons to copy the code.

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Dr. Churches and many other studies about the impact of emoticons to human’s emotions and as a vital part of our everyday communication only show how emoticons are becoming more elaborate and how over the years of emoticons’ evolution, more choices are being made available.

Mansfield, OH -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/18/2014 -- Gone are the good out-of-date telephone conversations. Inevitably, technology is drastically replacing the use of telephone conversations. The quickly written word is what makes communication easier for many. But the challenge in this shift of communication is, how sincere do written words convey given the fact that tone of voice, which is a crucial part of communication, is lacking?

Modern times necessitate emoticons. This is a strong claim, yet there is certain truth in it. Certain emotions are but hard to convey via written texts. Satire and insincerity can be difficult to express via a text message, and so are the declarative statements that are not supposed to convey any negative connotation. Certain statements can lead to misinterpretation. This problem in communication as a result of messenger, mobile texts, and chat technologies can be fixed with the use of emoticons.

According to Dr. Owen Churches, a Professor of Psychology from Flinders University in Adelaide, "Emoticons are a new form of language that we're producing, and to decode that language we've produced a new pattern of brain activity. There is no innate neural response to emoticons that babies are born with. Before 1982 there would be no reason that ':-)' would activate face sensitive areas of the cortex but now it does because we've learnt that this represents a face. This is an entirely culturally-created neural response. It's really quite amazing."

This statement from Dr. Churches reveal how emoticons are becoming a part of almost everyone's daily communication. Based on his studies about how humans react to emoticons, using advanced brain scanning techniques, a human's occipitotemporal cortex reacts whenever we see an emoticon. An inversion of such emoticon leads to another form of brain reaction. Secret-emoticons.com's Skype smileys therefore, which are considered as an important feature of Skype messaging is something that would most likely get a positive reaction to anyone who will be receiving or seeing it.

Dr. Churches and many other studies about the impact of emoticons to human's emotions and as a vital part of our everyday communication only show how emoticons are becoming more elaborate and how over the years of emoticons' evolution, more choices are being made available. This conclusion leads to the fact that in the future, people are expected to use more of emoticons' variations. With this being said, we should expect that someday, emoticons would have its own "dictionary" where each emoticon would have a standard meaning. That is the future of emoticons. Wherever these smileys and any other types of emoticons would lead us, it is important that we use them with all sincerity and with all honesty.

About Secret-Emoticons.com
Each Skype emoticon is represented by a code or a specific word in the brackets. To apply these Skype smileys, we just copy code and paste it at Skype chat. Secret-Emoticons.com offers a wide variety of emoticons where we can just click on these emoticons to copy the code.

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