What are Emoticons?

Emoticons are little graphics that help you to show your messenger friends how you’re feeling or thinking, but in more than plain text. They are literally graphics of different smiley faces, such as happy, sad, angry or confused faces. But beyond those basic pictures, free emoticons for MSN can show a whole range of objects, emotions or even actions if you use video emoticons!

Free Emoticons for MSN Messenger

MSN Live Messenger comes with under 80 emoticons ready for you to use. This might seem like a lot, but the truth is that you can only show a limited amount of emoticons. To start using them, click here to view Microsoft’s guide to the emoticon text shortcuts.

Personalize Your MSN Live Messenger for Free

MSN Live is more fun when you can personalize it! Though there are many services that offer this at a price, it can be harder to find some for free. But we’ve done the searching for you and found Smiley Central – a service offering 10,000+ emoticons all FREE!

Just click here to download the toolbar, then you’ll be able to add all kinds of emoticons to your chat. More fun and it won’t cost a penny!

Add Your Friends’ Emoticons

Are your friends using cool emoticons that you want to save for yourself?

If so, it’s easy to do it. In the conversation window of your MSN Messenger, just “right-click” on the emoticon, and click “add”. It’s that simple! You can now use it just like all of your other emoticons! Yet another way to get free emoticons for MSN!