Figured I'd end the week with something fun.

You seen them all over the place. If you text, email, play online games, post on blogs, or do anything using social media, you seen them. They're part of the everyday lexicon of web users. They add to a message what cannot always been perceived from the content itself: emotion.

Many people know some of the basic ones :) but not everyone knows most of the more commonly-used emoticons :(, so here's a quick primer that will help you take another step away from being a n00b ("noob" – a derogatory form of "newbie") towards being a l33t (from "elite", sometimes replaced with "uber" as in something is "uber cool" or "l33t"). For those interested, substituting numbers for letters is an old-fashioned way of making passwords more secure and is "web speak" and used interchangeably.

Here goes...

You may see variations of the above. There are no hard and fast rules. You'll see people add noses :-) to their emoticons but it all means the same - more or less :)

Now you can text, email and social media knowing a little more about webiquette :D

Happy Friday :P