:) >_> D: ^__^ \o

[Hiatus]

I love emoticons! I'm going to ditto everyone else and say that they're a great way to express your emotions. My favorite emoticons are the ones that are text-based. The image-based ones are a little... weird. xD My most common smilies are the following:

;o;
;~;
:3
D:
Dx
.-.
xD
n__n

Not a lot, but that's still better than nothing. Haha.

 

[Hikamaru]

I use emoticons a lot, mostly ones that display a happy face or even acting cute. It's a sign of showing my feelings when I'm posting or sending a VM here.

 

[Jin Of The Gale]

I don't use them much and at times people tend to think that I'm serious all the time due the lack of emoticons in my texts.

I use the following emoticons now:

:/
o_o;

And very rarely, these:

:D
;p
x_X
:]
:[
\o/

 

[srinator]

i use a heck of a lot of emoticons and my friends at the battle server would agree lol :P

i use many tbh -_- >_> <_< :3 ^_^ v_V u_u n_n :/ :|
some of the many i use o.o;

 

[Renpuu]

I've got into a habit of using them often during online conversations and posts
My favourite ones are:

XD
=D
^_^
X_X
-_-
¬_¬
>_>

 

[Synerjee]

I love using emoticons! They're fun. :3 I don't use them when I'm completely serious or talking to someone I don't really get along with though.

c: - happy face!
:c - sad face..
:D - extremely happy or laughing face!
:P - TEEHEE!
xD - for awesome xD moments xD
xP - extra TEEHEE!
:3 - adorably cute face :3
x3 - extra adorably cute face
D: - *gasp*
:O - surprised face!
._. - oh.
== - wth.
:/ - unsure.
>< - urkk..
n_n - delighted!
O.o - huh..?
o_o - uhh...

There are many more others, but I'll leave it to you guys to discover them in your own time. :3

 

[Squirrel]

I use :) :( :D <3 </3 :p :o XD and 8D regularly, and occasionally things like :x .-. and :s. I also enjoy using the Trozei sprites on PC since they can make any post seem more tacky fun.

I don't often use the image versions of smilies though since they don't often construe the implications of the text very well, so I tend to stick to the plain text versions.

 

[Salzorrah]

:33
:3
:)
:(
:x
xD
:P
x3
;)
;3
;-;
;o;
Q.Q

pretty much sums it up i guess :33

 

[Shizzable]

I feel like I used emoticons way too often, but they just seem less boring to me than punctuation :P

 

[Arca09]

I love using emoticons.. but I try not to go over, I know some people might get annoyed by that.. > _ >

Stuff I sorta regularly use:
8D
:D
: )
: P
xP
:\
:'D
;_;
--"
0W0
QwQ
OTL

I don't like using the image smileys either... Its just not the same.

 

[Amiasek]

I mostly use the most simple emoticons such as ":D" and ":P". I try to avoid using many emoticons other than these. :D

 

[starseed galaxy auticorn]

I use them all of the time. The most common ones for me are O_O, O_o and XD. I'm serious. Oh and I also like using :3. There's a lot of them I use, but i can't name them all... I think the ones I mentioned are more common for me.

Other times I use >o>, >w<, ^w^, O w O... among others. lol like I said, I can't name them all. I think my favorite one out of all them is >w< Because it's so cute and adorable.

Oh and I also use TT^TT, TT_TT, TTwTT... and yeah. I'm pretty much naming them as I go along. XD My most commonly used smiley though is XD.

 

[Legendary Silke]

Windows RT sure makes inserting Emoji easy. I do prefer using Emoji these days.

Things like...

😃, 👀, 😸, and the like. Of course, sometimes I use the old ones. ;)

 

[Echidna]

I dislike animated/graphic emoticons. I prefer simple text smilies, but even those I don't use much.

Ok except for ;;