How to Text Emoticons. With communication moving at the speed of light, it makes sense that you'd want to take the quickest path possible to inform your employees of your emotions. Doing this via ...

WHAT IS HAPPENING?! Boys like to use smileys as much or more than girls. Though some people might think "teen girl" when they think smiley face, in my experience it is actually boys, actually MEN (I'm ...

The first emoticon — the text smiley — sprang into existence 40 years ago on Sept. 19, 1982, and emojis have been part of online life ever since.

Emoji use is on the rise A study published Wednesday, July 2, in the journal PLOS One found that emoji use is on the rise, ...

We may not spend a lot of time thinking about the emoticons we insert into our emails and text messages, but it turns out that they reveal something interesting about the way we perceive facial ...

Happy birthday to the emoticon -- the sideways smiley-face that changed the way we communicate emotion online.Consisting of three keyboard strokes (colon, hyphen, close parentheses), the popular ...

But while the general public gets their rocks off by infusing simple smiley faces, winks and shrug emoticons into their text conversations, it may be time for you to step your game up to more ...

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A Tech+ reader who is inadvertently creating a smiley face with sunglasses in Microsoft Word asks how to adjust the emoticon settings.

So a real smile makes more of an impact than an emoticon. Nonetheless, the text only message containing the smileys was perceived as slightly warmer than the message that did not contain the smileys.

Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study from Rice University. The symbols, which began as happy and sad smiling faces but have since morphed ...