I know that, but it's not relevant to the point. The whole article is talking about smiles and emotions conveyed in text, so that's the context. The name doesn

I know that, but it's not relevant to the point. The whole article is talking about smiles and emotions conveyed in text, so that's the context. The name doesn't matter. Forum smilies also had a bunch of non-faces/emotions (my favorite was the "stink lizard" - still not sure what that was supposed to convey) but they're not interesting to the discussion.