Smiley faces are a great way to express yourself on Facebook. Add a little personality to your messages, make sure readers understand that you’re being sarcastic, or express amusement over a friend’s joke. Whether you’re feeling elated, overjoyed, goofy or downright jolly, express it with a digital smile. Smiley faces dress up and animate ideas, give readers something to look at other than text, and are easy to make with a few easy keystrokes.

1. Step 1

   Write a sentence to accompany your smiley face. The best place for a smiley face is near an expression of happiness, next to a funny story, or by a joke.

2. Step 2

   Choose the smiley face that you want to use from the following options:
   Happy – Colon followed by a parentheses
   Very happy =) – Equals sign followed by a parentheses
   Grinning – Colon followed by an uppercase “D”
   Cat smiling ^_^ – Shift and press six, underscore, Shift and press six
   Wink smile – Semicolon followed by a parentheses
   Goofy smile – Eight followed by a parentheses
   Tongue sticking out :p – Colon followed by a lowercase “p”
   Smiling devil 3:) – Three followed by a colon and parentheses
   Smiling angel 0:) – Zero followed by a colon and parentheses

3. Step 3

   Insert the smiley face two spaces behind the period following the appropriate sentence. Here is an example of how to incorporate a smiley face into text naturally: “I had the best time at the fair. All my friends showed up.”

4. Step 4

   Add a nose to any of the smiley faces by inserting a dash in between the eyes and mouth, modifying the smiley face to look like the following examples:
   Happy
   Very happy =-)
   Grinning
   Wink smile
   Goofy smile
   Tongue sticking out :-p
   Smiling devil 3:-)
   Smiling angel 0:-)

5. Step 5

   Enter two spaces following the smiley face before beginning the next sentence.