Find and Download Smileys Online

Have you download smileys before? If not, by the time you finish reading this article, you can't wait to download thousands of free animated smileys. I'll tell you why.

What is smiley? The smiley, sometimes known as the smile face is a cartoon of a smiling human faced characterized by a round yellow circle with two black dots for yes and a half circle for the mouth.

Nowadays, a smiley is a common used as a generic term for any emoticon. The smiley :-) and its many variants have been in use worldwide since the early '80s and this is a feature of the online social culture. But things have really changed since the early days. Now smileys come in 3D, animated and with sound.

When you are in a face-to-face meeting, people can see your mood expressed through your body language. But when you communicate with your friends or customers in text through email, how would they know your mood?

Once I responded to my customer through text messagin (sms) in my mobile phone with a curt reply: “OK” She thought I was upset because of a previous misunderstanding. If only I had send her a smile with a smiling smiley, I would have avoid another misunderstanding.

Emoticons are a fun way to express yourself and to let others know how you are feeling.    

If you are parent, do you know that you can use smileys to teach your child to read and speak?  

Here is a true story. Three year old Angie was imitating Anna Nalick on the talking smileys section under music artists of SmileyCentral.com. Watch how she learn to speak by repeating every word that the smileys say. The words are shown below the icon, so the child can see and learn to read the words. Watch this amazing kid learning how to speak in a fun way: http://vimeo.com/602470

Smileys work on many software applications such as internet messaging, emails, blogs, Myspace and MSN. These bubbly yellow faces bring cheers and pep up the conversation. Showing the right emotiocon save you trouble of explaining in lengthy composition.  Smileys are the icon of the new web generation.

Fans are using the latest animated sports smileys to support their team in competitions such as the Super Bowl. Fans of Michael Jackson remembers him with Michael Jackson smileys.

In Smiley Central website, on average, more than two millions Smiley emoticons are sent daily. The most popular ones are the Music Artist Smileys.

I think Smiley Central must be the happiest website. It offers you over 10000 animated and talking free smiley  emoticons for your email, instant messages, blog and mobile phone!.

What's unique about Smiley is that you can't find some of them elsewhere as they are created by their own in-house designers. New smileys are every week. Once you've downloaded Smiley Central, all new smileys will be added to your collection automatically.

SmileyCentral.com also features talking smileys (many voiced by popular music artists), and customizable smileys that allow users to add their own message to a variety of emoticons.