Depending on what service you like to use to stay in touch online you can get most of them for free and get a bonus of some 10,000 Smileys with your messenger. With the AOL Instant Messenger download you get to stay connected with your friends and you can use some animated emotions in the process as you are staying in touch with your friends. You can also get free MSN animated smileys for your MSN Messenger for Windows as well.

And, if you download Yahoo Messenger there are many tens of thousands of smileys, emoticons, emotions, and all kinds of other amazingly wicked things you can use while talking to your best peeps online instead of actually doing something productive. You will never worry about being alone online any longer with all the IM software services and cool emoticons for your computer that are now available.