I use o3o and ^^ a lot. The ^^ is a happy face but I'm always worried that people who I'm just starting to talk to won't know that and think I'm pointing up in the conversation lol! With the o3o face, most people see it as a kissy face, and I can see why, but I have always thought of it as like a derpy happy face someone will make if they're just content with life lol!
i prefer to say FHOIDSNKLHOILN or KDSLMIOJLM or something similar, but when talking to irl people i frequently use emojis... especially that laughing crying face lol.
other text faces i ironically use are xD, -_-, , o_o
As for emojis, I don't have a smartphone so if I wanna use emojis I have to look them up in a search engine and copy and paste them, but probably heart emojis I use sometimes?
XD
-_-
T_T
^u^
uwu
and normal smileys/frowns of course. =D =] =[
For emojiis honestly my fave is the heart eye'd cat. I send it to my bf all the time, and post it on facebook things, but my phone turns them to the NORMAL heart eyed emojii and I hate it. =[