How to Text Emoticons. With communication moving at the speed of light, ... For a happy face, type a colon for the eyes and a closed parenthesis for the smile, like this: :).

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 trying to refer to ...

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.

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 ...

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Smiley (female) face: Women are more than twice as likely to use emoticons in text messages. Researchers found although women used them more, men used more varied emoticons ...

The same feature in Office also can replace certain text with symbols, such as (c) with ©, the copyright symbol. In my Word’s AutoCorrect, the emoticon smiley face does exist in the same ...

PITTSBURGH — 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 ...

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 ...