Scott Fahlman, one of the smiley face emoticon’s inventors, created it because it’s sometimes difficult to convey the right message over the Internet when others cannot see or hear you. While Scott’s original smiley consisted of text, people in the 21st Century can add smiley images to their Outlook email messages. Static smiley faces are fine, but you may want to send your email recipient one that has life. You can do that by embedding an animated GIF smiley in your Outlook message. Writer Bio
