What Everybody Ought to Know About Smileys

It is 25 years since the Carnegie University professor Melon Scott Falman introduced a smiley in the way we use it today. Moreover, he offered to use it in chatting.

“I offered to use such succession of symbols for witty messages . Read sideways. At the same time, taking into consideration the recent events, it is also useful to mark the messages that are NOT jokes by ” – wrote Falman in 1982.

The psychologist says could see the emotion and mood put in the message by the sender more clearly.

It is a common fact that the first smile appeared at 11:44 a.m. September 19, 1982 when Falman wrote a message on, at that time not numerous, forum. The message dealt with how to express an emotion while communicating over the Internet.

They say that before smiles got widely spread for denoting a joke the symbol “#” was used as an analog to the teeth seen while smiling.

Back in 1972 the users of the system PLATO were able to use special symbols for expressing their emotions in the shape of small rectangular faces. But independence from the used fonts and codes is an undisputable advantage of a smile like :-).

In 1963 the American painter Harvey Boll was the first to draw a smile as a yellow round face with two dots.

The renowned yellow face appeared in the beginning of the 60s. The representatives of the insurance company State Mutual Life Assurance Cos. of America addressed Boll and he made the smile for the company. The first series of smiles was released as yellow badges which were given to the company’s employees and clients. The logo was highly successful and over 10 thousand badges were put out.

At the same time, psychologists state that smiles are used in informal communication, in official communication the symbols like :-{} or are not accepted.

Carnegie University employees say that 25 years ago no one could have imagined that smiles would become so popular.

Falman says:

“When I enter a modern chart or forum, hardly a minute passes I see a smile in the message.”

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