Your write your smiley weird as she comments on my -)
My daughter continues: You use a dash instead of a colon. That's a nose but no eyes. Eyes smile too.
Yup, that's a Cyclops smiley goes my son.
So we look for who's right and there are so many other options here.
Some of my favorites :
-# smile with braces
:-----) long nose smile (liar!)
{:-) Toupee smile
(:-D for blabbermouth. ...er, on last one I think they mean blogger :)