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You can add emotional nuances to their text chat by using "emotes". This can liven up conversation and reduce miscommunication.

This video tutorial quickly shows you how to use emotes:

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As shown, there are several special prefixes for emotes:

/me

Beginning a line of chat with /me phrases it from your perspective. For example, if your name is Torley Linden and you enter:

/me looks delighted to emote

It appears to everyone as:

Torley Linden feels delighted to emote

/shout and /whisper

These are a couple "hidden" emotes that aren't visibly documented in the Viewer's user interface but have worked in some capacity for years: /shout and /whisper. Like /me, begin a line of chat with the trigger.

Important: /shout and /whisper both autocomplete. This can conflict if you have other gestures or scripted gadgets that have triggers that begin similarly. A workaround is to backspace or paste in the command.

/shout

• Can be heard by avatars within a 100m radius.
• You can also shout by completing your line of chat with Ctrl+Enter ↵.
• Shout is accompanied by an animation of your avatar cupping hands-to-mouth, similar to how you might shout in an exaggerated way in real life.
• Appears in bold.

/whisper

• Can be heard by avatars within a 10m radius.
• Appears in italics.

Emoticons

Related, you may be familiar with emoticons such as the popular smiley face :) which can be typed in the chat bar alongside any other text. There are a tremendous variety with variations. For example, happiness is also expressed via ^^ , :o) , and =^_^= . Unicode symbols from other languages that appear to be emoting faces are also used, such as the popular ㋡ from Japanese, which appears to be a diagonally-tilted happy face.

Emoticons are often used in gestures. For example, there's a gesture which uses ":)" as a trigger and automatically transforms it into the aforementioned "㋡".

See also

• Awesomize your profile with Unicode and ASCII art
• Limits - Comprehensive numerical limits of the Second Life virtual world.
• How far does my voice carry? - Earlier documentation from the Viewer 1.23 era.