I'm new too & I thought I was the only one! I did figure out how to use the faces. Press the Go Advanced button, type the message & press a smiley thing on the right of the message window. It will pop in where your curser is blinking like that! Scroll down to preview. The icons near the Preview Post will pop up on the top left of the message. Hey, how do we get a pix next to our log-in name?!?