MyEmoticons

MyEmoticons is a browser extension that boasts a huge collection of smileys and animations for Gmail, Twitter and Facebook users. The selection includes more than one thousand items and works on three major browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome.

Most social platforms and email services feature a set of decent emoticons, but few of them can take credit for boasting stunning or addictive animations. Those who fancy more might find an alternative in third-party software, such as MyEmoticons.

There’s nothing complicated about this browser add-on, starting with the installation procedure and ending with the ‘getting-used-to’ part. A minor discomfort might come from the fact that deployment requires that all open browsers be restarted, but compensation comes from the richness of the emoticon collection.

MyEmoticons is compatible with three major online services, namely Gmail, Twitter and Facebook. Locating the animations is not complicated either, since for all of these platforms, the add-on implements a panel that you just cannot miss.

There are three major sections that you can check out and discover awesome avatars: Smileys & Emotions, Objects and Text. The first category includes meme faces and items that describe various feelings: love, sadness, surprise, as well as animations inspired by holidays such as Halloween and Thanksgiving.

In the next category, a wide array of emoticons representing animals, activities, zodiac, food, music, movies, weather, sports and signs is available. If you fancy text animations, you should navigate to the last section for symbols, numbers, letters, and so on.

On the downside, there’s no possibility to customize any of the avatars. Even though their characteristics are satisfactory (size is decent and colors are cheerful), options to tweak their appearance would definitely come in handy.

MyEmoticons fulfills its purpose, that of spicing up emails, tweets and Facebook chat sessions with lively animations. A side effect of using this add-on, besides the satisfaction of showing off to your friends, is a sudden change of mood in a positive way.