+320 You can usually tell the age of someone on the internet by how they make their smileys. Normal people use :), your parents use :-), middle-schoolers use =), and teenage girls use (: , amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

NORMAL PEOPLE? SRSLY?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Normal people lmao. I personally perfer :D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Dangit, I thought I might escape this because I use: " (: ", but then I saw the end. Oh and what about people who use: ": )"?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

All true, except my parents use :) too

by Anonymous 13 years ago

most parents i know do :^) or :0). it annoys me.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Except for the fact that I don't know anyone in middle school that uses "=)"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I use =]

by Anonymous 13 years ago

so, this 'normal' age range, would you care to explain what ages that may be?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What about "xD" "xP" "x]" "x[" etc?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't mind those once in a while, but, personally, I think people who overuse them come across as immature. It's the same with >.< .

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So what's the age of normal people?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well I am a Freeman girl and I use:) and my boyfriend uses (:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly what age would a "normal person" be?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

to bad im a teenaged girl and i use xD and :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I just use whatever I feel like at the moment, usually =) and I'm in high school. it's a more cheerful smiley than :). hahaha! =D (there's another one)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I always saw middle schoolers as using a "X" for their smiley XD That's common in the underclassman at my school...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Normal person: Now an age.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't discriminate against any sort of smileys. :) :-) ;) ;.) :] =) :})

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The only people I've seen use "=)" were upperclassmen in high school and older. Personally, I prefer :{ (on gmail)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I always use different smileys, but my most commonly used ones are (: and :] .

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I use ^_^ >.< *.* -_- o.O that sort of thing

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I just want to show smileys... (^_^) (-: \-:', (//_-) (0_o) :-P

by Anonymous 13 years ago

>w<

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So true. As a normal middle schooler who's a teen mother, I use (:=-)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I am 51 and I don't use any of those I use vocabulary

by Anonymous 11 years ago

:]

by Anonymous 13 years ago

As a teenage girl, I hate (: because it's backwards and stupid. My dad doesn't use smileys, my mom uses :) if she can remember how to type it. I use :), sometimes :D, :P, =), =P, O_O, ^_^, :/ and -_-. I think XD and ones like that are more ''middle-school.''

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think we all know middle schoolers really use 8===D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I am in middle school and a teenager and use :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

my 2 favs: <|:{D Dumbledore! and ~8D Harry!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

im not a teenage girl! D:

by Anonymous 13 years ago