Emoticons One of the problems often cited with e-mail is that you lose the ability to add any feeling to your message.
Emoticons are a very clever use of standard punctuation marks to express a human emotion.
When viewed sideways they resemble facial expressions. Here's how they work. So at the end of the sentence, you type a colon followed by a closing parentheses. If you view the symbol sideways, you will see a smiley face. Acronyms In the attempt to save keystrokes, internet users have developed a number of acronym shortcuts.