Help us select new emoticons
We’re expanding the selection of emoticons in Skype. Over the next days, we’ll be circulating a selection of them in the poll box to the right, and we ask you to vote for one of the two presented choices. This will be a factor, among others, in deciding which ones we’re gonna do, so bring over your friends to vote, too.
It may, of course, be that we left some really important ones out — in this case, just add your input to the comments of this article.
]]>Previous winners:
* “sweating” vs “man flexing muscles” — **sweating**
* “Angry (smoke coming out the ears)” vs “Showing the Finger” — **angry**
* “thinking” vs “eating” — **thinking**
* “hug” vs “falling backwards” — **hug**
* “ninja” vs “old school fist fighting” — **ninja**
* “jump of joy” vs “clapping” — **jump of joy**
* “on the phone/Skype” vs “high-five” — **on the phone/Skype**
The vote is now over. Many thanks to those who participated!
This is great idea!!! I think all skype useres should vote. Let’s start with thiS.
How about a non-animated option?
I like the current crop of emoticons, but would really like to have non-animated ones as an option.
hıi thank you
Emoticons?
Eating pizza.
Piranha teeth.
Drooling.
Cyranose.
The protester with picket sign. Defiance.
Cousin Itt – all hair.
Wearing a Moroccan fez.
Judge wig.
Scout.
Movie director.
Hockey player (think broken teeth, black eye)
Hacker.
Manhole cover.
Frisbee.
Fireworks.
Traffic sign.
Asleep.
Toilet paper.
Tied up.
Prison photograph.
Vintage. Sepia, distressed.
A dead icon.
Fuzzy dice.
maybe the same emoticons as Trillian basic
all the animated icons would be great i meal like short forms like lol asl etc…. and the moody ones too
The choice of emoticons depends a lot on how you have decided to position Skype: if you’re looking to expand its business use, the emoticons should be informative and not just hilarious and “in your face” such as the “finger” idea versus the “smoke from the ears”
I like the YAHOO emoticons for APPLAUSE and BIG HUG
Something to denote $ would be handy.
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Please make more animated pics! it is possible with sound?
for ex. vomit with sound
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Animation is nice, but it will be very-very nice if emoticons plays only in current message that you read now and freeze after it, when you start to answer.
More emoticons is good idea, but in this case user must have option to edit the list.
A Clapping emoticon please.
More animated pics because they are very common, so we need more animated pics. for example: i Love you.
I have the latest version of Skype for OSX but there seems to be a total shortage of emoticons for us Apple users. I can’t even see some of the ones that I am sent from the windows users and just get a word which is a bit dull. Can you please update our version too and put all those new funky ones in our update? I’d be a much happier Skype user then
Dont you think there are enough programs with emoticons,
i prefer using skype without the whole lot of smiling, vomiting, and laughing cartoons staring at me.
I use skype for support and dont need any lovely emoticons,
Could You guys bring out a complete downtuned Skype version for people that do not like smileys,
There are enough programs around that have smileys.
Please skype, build us a clean nice small version that we can use to call & chat with ;0)
It’s me Adam am from EGypt Cairo Maadi i wanna new friends
I like emoticons, but i’d rather prefer to have an option to: deactivate animations or deactivate them all ALSO from GUI. The same thing for the font selection options in the GUI. There is too waste of space.
Jacuro wrote:
>Please skype, build us a clean nice small version that we can use to call & chat with ;0)
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Jacuro’s right. Keep It Simple Skype.
Besides, the old-fashioned text emoticons are more fun and creative.
Why aren’t the emoticons available for Mac users? Fix that first before you start adding more.
At the very least, you gotta let me see the one where the guy is rolling on the floor laughing his ass off! It’d be even better if he really lost his ass…
Please I want more and more Emoticons.
I want emoticon For
I want emoticon for
It is great !!!
Hi everybody, I am new and just wanna make new feinds.
SUBJECT – Animated emoticons.
Hey people from Skype. First of all, please accept my congratulations for developing Skype. This small and brilliant software (for me is like wings) made my life very easy since I started to use it. But I´m not here to say YOU obvious facts. In fact, I’m here just to let you know that I really didn´t like the new animated emoticons. I strongly prefer the static ones. Please permit me to give you a suggestion. For the next version, please give us the option to have the old ones emoticons.
many thanks – Carlos Gomes
1 of my personal favorites is the red devil emoticon, see MSN Msngr
secondly, one crazy thing I’d like to see is that mixed icon of and crying. twisted but good in hilarious and funny moods.
Some friends and I once played a drunken game of
The animated emoticons are a very ANNOYING distraction.
I had to turn emoticons off completely.
PLEASE include an option for NON-ANIMATED emoticons!
Many thanks.
I use Skype most for businesscommunication and I loved the old set of non-animated emoticons. I don’t like the new set of animated emoticons, because they are very restless. Emoticons have a very important role in chatcommunication so I think there should be at least a possibility to switch between a static and an animated set. But I prefere to remove the animated set permanently. Maybe you can make a poll to check users preference?
I use Skype for business communications. It would be great if there was a set of emoticons for the business users of skype.
How about some counterculture or playful emotions for:
“Psychic” “getting the vibes” telepathic gypsy?
‘What’s you sign?”
“Uptight”
“Duh!!”
Alluring or Enticing “ENCHANTING” “bellydancer” “Vamp”
“Peel me a grape” Mae West mood
“Flattened out” or “fried” “burnt to a crisp?” or wiped out
Traveling -hobo hitchhiker on the road again
“Meditating” Yoga position
“Goddess” icon -feminine sprituality higher self mode-women
“Soul Searching”
“Masseuse” Or giving massage “nurturing”
“Astral Projection” Leaving Body astral travel
“Dreaming”
“Inspired – “Singing or playing music”
“MARS & VENUS” Men Are from Mars Women Are from Venus
Guy gving flowers to the girl “pursuing” Romeo-White Horse?
pODERIA TER UMA VERSÃO PORTUGUES….PARA AJUDAR “BRASILEIROS”…..
I have been working with the tsunami reconstruction for the past 5 months and Skype is the best way for me to talk with my 5 year old and 2 year old in the US. As neither of them can write, and my youngest is just speaking, using emoticons (my kids call them “stickers”) while talking at the same time is the only way they stay interested in the computer. I need more stickers, and especially the animated ones, as these keep me connected to my family better than anything else available!
These are cool but how come they don’t animate on my MAC when friend sends them from PC ?
- if fact none of them animate
i think u should get more emoticons that move.
You have to make an emoticon with a dog look!You have to do this desperately…please!
dog look
The ability to import emoticons from other sources, compatible with Yahoo, MSN, etc. would be most useful.
I think it’s a really good idea to get new Emoticons for Skype! My favorites are an Angel and a Devil as Smiley
Thanks to all!Skype is a really good Program
please I need new emoticons . A lot of new emoticons!!!!!!
(blush) where can i download this one?
I wan’t more emoticons!!!
Need more emoticons pleeeease! Also would love to see an option to buy and download emoticons from the store.
.~’*'~. Emoticons .~’*'~.
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These are the kinds of Emoticons I would like to see:
Twinkle Stars ( that blink or fade )
Beating Hearts ( pink or red )
Sunshine & Rays
Kitty Cats Emoticons
Little e-mail letters ( flying )
Angels
Pretty Red Rose
Holiday Emoticons
More Girly Emotes, these faces all look like boys faces.
Where are the cute girly ones?
hi … did anyone know that there are hidden emotions like ?? try it out ! I know more ,but they are innapropriate , sorry .
how about a really annoying one that walks around in the textbox
How can I download more emotions to my Skype?
I think this is the main problem ldelphim, I dont think you can download any additional emotionicons into skype. I find this very irritating.. and makes MSN more of a winner in thiss regards. If Ant one knows of a way to add additional emoticons please let us know
(slap) – hand slap animation
(rofl) – man rolling on floor laughing
(lol) – same as
(lily) – sympathy lily
(chicken) or (coward) – A chicken flapping
moon like emoticon please