All ages enjoy using the chat symbols. I was really surprised to find out that my friend who is around 65 years old knows how to use keyboard symbols on her Mac. Not only did she know how to use them but she knew all of them. I’ve also seen people as young as 5 or 6 use these symbols each day.

Keyboard symbols

I think the main reason why people enjoy using the chat keyboard symbols is because they not very hard nor complicated to use whatsoever. All that you need to do is copy the symbols into your messenger and they show up. You can do this by hovering your mouse over the symbol, left click it, highlight the symbol, right click for copy and put it in your messenger. Listed below is the top 5 chat symbols that you can use in your messenger.

Keyboard symbols

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Can’t Stop Talking

Do you have a lot to say and just don’t know when you can stop talking because you are that excited about it? Does your friend just seem to go on and on about a subject you don’t want to hear? If so then you might want to warn your other friends that they just can’t stop talking about it.

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Delicious, Yummy

Food is often mentioned in conversations. When your friend says something that sounds or taste really good you can let them know by telling them how delicious or yummy that sounds by this symbol.

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Sticking Out The Tongue

Did someone say something that just shocked you or made you feel disguisted? We all have those moments it seems! You can let them know just how shocked or disguisted that made you feel by sticking your tongue out at them! Shock them back!!

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Kisses

Are you in love with someone and want to throw them a kiss? Maybe you just want to make someone feel better. If so you can express how you are feeling by sending them a kiss.

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Clowning

Feel like clowning around? There are some days that just feel right and some friends just seem to clown around all of the time!

There are a lot more keyboard symbols over at http://www.keyboardsymbols.net. They have many emoticons and special alt code characters that you can copy and paste into your chats, so check them out!

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.