autosmiley

The tendency of instant message software like Yahoo to turn groups of characters into smileys that you didn't want to be smileys, making it difficult to get your point across.

I tried to IM "Nice ass! (*)" to someone and it changed the (*) into a lame star smiley.

autosmiley by OffroadGirl March 1, 2005

Autoshmile 

Getting an automatic 'shmile' because of something that makes you happy

It made me autoshmile!

Autoshmile by Zaboud January 1, 2012