What does it mean when girls use emoticons?

[Anonymous]

When girls use emoticons (smilies like this :) in their texts and e-mails what does it mean?

[notsosimple19]

Some girls make a habit of putting :) or ;) after everything they say, which I can imagine gets sort of annoying for most guys!

As a girl myself, I usually put a smiley when whatever the guy has said genuinely made me smile. :)

[Asker]

Yeah, I can never tell if a girl is being flirty with me when they use :) or ;) and it gets confusing!

[Book-Tard]

Generally ;) is used for flirting, or to show they are teasing you.

:) usually implies they are smiling at what you said, or smiling while they are typing back to you.

[Book-Tard]

Haha, I forgot to add...

Flirting is confusing anyway... especially when you aren't face-to-face, it's hard to decipher what the other person really means!

Good luck!

[notsosimple19]

Lol, usually ;) means more of a flirty side is coming forward, as opposed to :). So if she's putting ;) a lot, then yeah, she's probably flirting with you.

:)

[Anonymous]

its just a habit, its a way of letting people know our facial expressions as we write something in a text, since they can't read our gestures in person

[Asker]

I guess that makes sense, never thought about it like that.

[fwump38]

Usually nothing. I use them too. Since texts are so devoid of emotion as it is they are a great way to get it across that you are joking or upset or flirting. In most cases though they don't really mean anything.

[Asker]

I guess since texts are devoid of emotion I figure that they mean something, but most of the time they don't and I get confused. So I just don't use them at all.

[fwump38]

Ok that's not entirely true but they are completely different than face to face communication. Texts are a great quick and mostly fun way to talk/flirt with a girl. Use the emoticons :) ;-) :-( etc but use them sparingly. Just remember that they don't always mean something (but that doesn't mean that they are meaningless!)

[palek]

It means they're too young for dating, no matter how old they are in years.

[Anonymous]

It means they are a girl. I know I hate them with a passion.

[Anonymous]

it doesn't mean anything. I do that all the time