Liven Your Messages With Emoticons
Are you sending dull emails and text messages to your friends? Do you want to add some life and convey more meaning in your messages?
The answer is simple: Use Emoticons.
You have seen them everywhere. They are those cute little icons. Originally they were just smiley faces 
– used to indicate a light-hearted or humorous message. They have since expanded to portray just about everything from being sad 
, to shocked 
, to playing football 
or taking a bath 
.
Although this capability is not built into the iPhone you can easily add it without jailbreaking your phone. In other words, “There is an APP for that.”
There are actually a series of applications. Just go to the iTunes store and search on “Emoji” Then choose the application that you like and follow its installation instructions.
I used “Emoji Enabler – Easily Unlock 460+ Beautiful Emoticons For Free”. It was very easy to install and has hundreds (460+) of emoticons, way more than I can ever imagine using.
NOTE: This works great from one Apple product to another (e.g. iPhone to iPhone, iPhone to iPad, etc). It might or might not work with other devices, such as other smarth phones or email clients, depending on the features that device or software supports.
One warning – it can become addicting and annoying to use these emoticons.
Do NOT overdue it.
Have fun 
Richard
PS Thank you to Karolyn for showing me this application.