Earlier this week, Jesse Farmer notified me of a post he wrote about some interesting findings after hacking around with the new Facebook chat. One of those interesting things that he found was a picture of one of the developers inserted into the emoticons that are provided within the application. This reminds me of the days of NBA Jam on Super Nintendo!
Facebook has been known for leaving easter eggs throughout their site and this is another one. Take a look at the last image in the lineup of emoticons above. According to Jesse, there is a good chance that it’s an image of Chris Putnam, one of the engineers over at Facebook. Considering you need to type “:putnam:” to get the image to display I would say that there is a good chance that he’s right.
Jesse gives a thorough overview of how he hacked the chat system to find this emoticon so if you are into development type of stuff, you might want to check out his overview. I definitely got a quick refresher in leveraging Firebug to track incoming and outgoing packets from my browser. Thanks to Jesse for giving me a heads up on this!
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Hey there is also the Robot Emoticon which is ":|]" minus the quotes ("").
Comment by Denny — April 24, 2008 @ 1:30 pm
Hey there is also the Robot Emoticon which is “:|]” minus the quotes (“”).
Comment by Denny — April 24, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
the new shark emoticon is really cool.
(^^^)
Comment by b. oneil — September 4, 2009 @ 3:42 pm
here are a couple. :3 and heres a penguin <(")
Comment by Caroline — September 26, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
also i like to say im the FIRST person on facebook (publicaly)
to know how to make a bold impression.
simply put: *(text)* to make bold writing
thanks
Comment by jordan — August 9, 2010 @ 8:03 am
The link is broken and the complete list of Facebook Chat emoticons is available here http://www.techdaba.com/2011/01/smileys-emoticons-on-fac...
Comment by Shahan Shahid — January 8, 2011 @ 4:57 am
ur so stupid! thats always been there and if u type _in the text with a dash_ like this < it becomes underlined and if u do both it becomes underlined and bolded at the same time
Comment by ur so stupiid — February 13, 2011 @ 11:52 pm