are emoticons same as avatars?
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Emoticons are tiny figures, which anyone and everyone can use to pictorially represent their sad, happy, or comic feelings, or emotions - in their e-mails, e-chats, and e-answers ! These users have no part, or participation, in their designing !\nAvatars are images exclusively designed by a person, to depict or represent only him/her, in e-mails, e-chats, and e-answers - which can only be used by that one person who designed it.
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http://messenger.yahoo.com/emoticons.php\n\nGood Luck\n\nType the characters into your yahoo messenger line.
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definitly not. btw, nice avatar... reminds me of, hhmmmmm,.......ME!
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The following link is the best source for yahoo smileys. Each icon has a keyword in front of it; you can write them in yahoo messenger.\n\nhttp://messenger.yahoo.com/emoticons.php
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The pictures are nicer, but the avatars are better than the square box smiley face, but then, the avatars are quite limited on choices.  My picture represents my personality...yes, I am quite squirrelly.
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interesting, but i just noticed that we pretty much have the same avatar...
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There a forum just for this sort of question. Try there :)\n\nhttp://messages.avatars.yahoo.com/avatars/forumview?bn=2114900027-avatars
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Try signing into a site like " www.meebo.com ". Caution though, this site is not a messenger per se, does not have features like audibles and does not show some emoticons correctly.
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Hello Diana,\nEveryone has only one kind of expression,emotion and personality at a time. So how can u think of 2 or more avatars at the same time (even if they are allowed). One avatar at a time is the best option. Anyways, Good luck!
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You can use avatars in many places on Yahoo!. We frequently add new features, so check the Yahoo! Avatars home page for the latest way to use your avatar.\nYahoo! Avatars are displayed in the Yahoo! Messenger List of versions 6.0 and higher. You can also display avatars in the IM window during a Messenger conversation. The avatar can represent your mood the same way you use emoticons in Messenger.\n\nYour avatar will also be displayed in your Yahoo! Mail account, and you can see your avatar in your profile on Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! Music Engine, Yahoo! Podcasts, Yahoo! Answers, and Yahoo! Trip Planner. Your avatar can be one of your profile photos on Yahoo! 360°. The Yahoo! Message Boards Beta can display your avatar next to your posts (not all message boards have this feature yet). You can use your avatar as a team logo on Yahoo! Fantasy Sports.\n\nNote: At this time, a Yahoo! Avatar can't be disabled for a specific alias. Your avatar will be displayed for your Yahoo! ID and all profiles associated with that ID everywhere avatars can be used on Yahoo!.
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http://avatars.yahoo.com/\nThey started about a half a year ago, I am pretty sure. Enjoy!
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Avatars are easier, anyone can do it, you don't have to upload anything or have a 360 page if you don't want one. It kinda looks like me, I think in this forum, what we say means more than how we look.
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they contain the same letters. \n\n:D
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try emoticons.com or freeze.com  but be warned freeze downloads lots of other things u might not have a need or want for...
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Hello....\n\nSmall 2 or 3 charcter 'pictures' are called emoticons (a combination of the words emotion and icon)  They are actually a small subset of a larger phenomenon called Ascii Art.\n\nBefore the days to dot matrix/inkjet/laser printers people used to make 'pictures' with characters overtyped on the paper.  This is called ascii art (ascii being  ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), generally pronounced [ˈæski], is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings—which support many more characters—have a historical basis in ASCII.                             http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii)\n\nMany examples are here:\n\nhttp://www.chris.com/ascii/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art
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No absolutely not. Italics, bold or underline would be enough, I think. If they ever want to move from pure .txt to including html code, that's exactly what I'd like to see.\n\nI do sometimes use normal ascii emoticons, but I definitely prefer not to.
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I just take them off other people by right clicking the mouse. You will see add and then you just name this emoticon whatever you want to.