If you use pf a lot, you get used to the fact that people use to represent laughter cus lets face it; just dont hack it.

But eventually the usage becomes an institue all of its own, with people often using on other sites as well as pf and on MSN. For example I use on the FordSport forum.

This leads for most people unused to the "PF" use of to become confused.

So while I was talking to a friend of mine on msn (Capri is his username, and he posts on here every now and again.) I was using the MSN to represent my reaction to some of the more humourous parts of our conversation where he replied to me, and I flocking quote too

 

 

What?

 

mmm, if you let your mouse hover over the smily, a yellow tool tip comes up that reads "surpris"...

No bonus for guessing what that means in english, but it's neither crying with laughter, or crying with despair... go figure...

 

Sad one....
This one is definitly crying for all the reasons your mate said!!!
No comment...
Ditto...
Just love that one!!

 

Actually... that one's not too bad either...

 

 

had the same conversation with a girl i chat to last night

 

this is the only site i use that means laughter!

I use it everywhere else & ppl get confused!

normally when i typoe in : cry : though this somes up!

 

its true..... i put in when im laughing and people have no idea what im going on about!

 

my mate said that to me as well

 

 

i was a little confussed about this when i first joined and was a little till this post

 

hehe.

Yup ive tried to use it elsewhere and it just dont work lol

And ive just realised if you hover over the emotions there all in FRENCH!

 

its worse when people use : cry : in emails, you cant see the smiley, but you still type it. quite a few PF peeps do that when mailing eachother (including me)

 

touching story... makes me

 

I would get rid of that smiley app you have. You'll might have noticed but it installs the MyWebSearch toolbar which is classed as spyware. Do a scan with the likes of Spysweeper, Ad-Aware or Spybot and you'll see what I mean

 

Been using on Messenger for 's years to mean crying with laughter Only had to explain it once, lol

 

Yeah, I use it in text messages too, but only woth PF users