Information seems to have lost its value. It is sent about carelessly, caution thrown to the the wind. People think they might be taking excellent precautions, but few things are safe. Phone lines can be tapped, emails hacked, and mail intercepted. At some point in time you will need to give someone a message and there can be no chance of someone else getting their hands on it.
An emoticon (ee-MOHT-i-kon), (/áµ»ËmoÊtáµ»kÉn/, or /iËmoÊtáµ»kÉn/) is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks, numbers and letters, usually written to express a person's feelings or mood. In Western countries, emoticons are usually written at a right angle to the direction of the text.
Look at them sideways and you will see they are what is called smileys or emoticons, as the last person who answered said, they represent different emotions. XD is a laughing smile. :P is face with tongue out. :) is a smile. In basic chat lingo, code names for emoticons are typed out on the keyboard.<br />XD, :P, :) etc stand for denoting emotions while chatting. In services like Yahoo Messenger, you already have a set of emoticons available for insertion in the text.