Not a overly big fan of emoticons... on the other hand, were we to truly adopt a different set than we have now, would it not make more sense to adopt or even combine/merge the existing standard sets on the big services such as Facebook, Google, MSN, Yahoo?
Facebook emoticons:
- [Direct] http://facebook-answers.blogspot.com/2013/01/facebook-all-emoticons-list-2013.html
Google gMail emoticons:
- [Direct] http://www.chatslang.com/emoticons/shortcuts/gmail
MSN Messenger emoticons:
- [Direct] http://messenger.msn.com/Resource/Emoticons.aspx
Yahoo Messenger emoticons:
- [Direct] http://messenger.yahoo.com/features/emoticons/