Texting Symbols for Facebook

How many friends do you have whom you have not met for the longest time now? If you belong to the large group of people who find it exceedingly difficult to keep in touch with people, then I will conclude that you have many such friends. But thanks to social networking sites like Facebook, today it is much easier to not only revive a friendship but also spy on people thanks to these sites. Thanks to the many applications on Facebook, it is also the perfect antidote to any boredom that you feel. One of the best applications to use on Facebook is to make use of the chat facility that it provides that allows you to reconnect with people you have probably not had a conversation with since junior high. And thanks to the many texting symbols for Facebook that you can use during chatting, you have the ability to express yourself animatedly in case you are falling short of words. While it seems like many members of the younger generation are born with the knowledge of emoticons and emoticon meanings, for a slightly older generation, this article will serve as a guide to the different texting symbols for Facebook.

Facebook Texting Symbols

First it is important for you to know that there is not much difference between the text message symbols that are used while sending out messages with the help of mobile phones and texting symbols for Facebook, though the number of texting symbols for Facebook are much lesser than the number of symbols you have at your fingertips for mobile phones. In today's world it is quite difficult to have any conversation without including some sort of smiley face symbols in your message. A joke with a wink, love with the heart symbol, mischief with devil symbols, etc, are all integral parts of most chat windows. So if you are using Facebook on your phone, then it becomes important to learn how to put smiley in Facebook status using a mobile or you may want to express your love for someone by learning how do you make a heart on Facebook. In this article we give you a list of computer symbols that you can use as emoticons while chatting.

Texting Symbols for Facebook
Texting Symbols	Meaning
3:) 3:-)	Devil
8-) 8) B-) B)	Bespectacled Smile
:-D :D =D	Grin
>:( >:-(	Grumpy
O:) O:-)	Angelic with a Halo
:'(	Weeping
:-O :O :-o :o	Surprised
<3	Symbol of Heart
:v	Pacman Symbol
:-) :) :] =)	Smiling
:-P :-p :-p :p =P	Showing your tongue
:-( :( :[ =(	Sad
;-) ;)	Winking
>:O >:-O >:o >:-o	Angry
:/ :-/ : :-	Thinking
o.O O.o	Confused
:-* :*	Kiss
^_^	Very Happy
:3	Curled Lips
:|]	Robot

Given above were some of the texting symbols that are used frequently on Facebook. Now we give you a list of computer keyboard shortcuts that you can use to create symbols while chatting.

Keyboard Shortcut Symbols for Facebook
Keyboard Shortcut	Symbols
Alt + 1	☺
Alt + 2	☻
Alt + 3	♥
Alt + 4	♦
Alt + 5	♣
Alt + 6	♠
Alt + 7	•
Alt + 8	◘
Alt + 9	○
Alt + 10	◙
Alt + 11	♂
Alt + 12	♀
Alt + 13	♪
Alt + 14	♫
Alt + 15	☼
Alt + 16	►
Alt + 17	◄
Alt + 18	↕
Alt + 19	‼
Alt + 20	¶
Alt + 0169	©
Alt + 0153	™
Alt + 0174	®

So, whether you want to include smiley faces on Facebook or let the world know that you are depressed use these texting symbols for Facebook and let everyone know exactly how you are feeling at any given point of time.