MSN symbols

So where can you find these special symbols for MSN? There are several sites where chat symbols like this can be found, usually in various categories depending on what they represent. One of the most famous alt characters is the music note symbol, because it has been picked up by social networks and various web 2.0 startups to show which song (MP3) their users are listening to.

There is a wide variety of characters, however. There are many that look like regular smileys and emotes – little faces showing happy people and sad. There are also shapes and shades such as rectangles and squares and circles. You can even use these emoticons to build new pictures and ascii art – the possibilities are endless!

One of the major advantages of MSN symbols is that you can use them in your chats with anyone – even if they’re not using the official Windows Live Messenger software. There seems to be a growing trend towards online web based chat clients which use the Microsoft API, so now you don’t need to constantly be greeted by the message that the person you are chatting to can not receive your message – everyone can see these!

The final usage for symbols for MSN is within Myspace pages or Facebook status profiles. You can use any of these images as many times as you like, as long as you can type in the area. You can sometimes use them on your mobile device too, as long as those fonts or symbols are supported. You can find a full list of MSN symbols on this website, with some ideas on how to use them.