How you can use Facebook Smileys and Emoticons. Facebook smileys and emoticons have grown simple and straightforward for its users over the years as the social network platform has added more options with icons that are clickable, thereby allowing people to insert emoji and other little images without having to know the special secret. In the early days, Facebook emoticons were mostly used in chat, but as the years went by, support for smiley faces and a wide variety of other emoji expressions has been expanded to include status updates and even comments. How to Add Facebook Emoticons or Emoji to a Status Update In 2013, Facebook started rolling out a drop-down menu for emoticons in the status publishing box. To add an emoticon . Begin by composing a status update, i.e, click inside the status update box. To see the menu of available icons, click the tiny happy face icon at the bottom of the status update box, just to the right of the camera icon. The menu that will appear...