Language experts say the smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments that otherwise ...

Emoticons no longer have to be anonymous smiley faces representing simple emotions. Facebook Chat now lets you use the profile picture of any user, official Page, or event on the service as an ...

Research published earlier this month in the journal Social Neuroscience revealed that we react to emoticons in the same way we react to seeing an emotion expressed on someone’s face.

I've never been one for smiley faces. I've always felt I am just like one year too old for them. At my brother's high school graduation I listened to a popular teacher give his whole speech on the ...

One example of this is the creation and mainstream acceptance of the emoticon ":-)" to indicate a happy or smiling demeanour. The smiley face emoticon was first placed in a post to the Carnegie ...

People with home computers and internet connections were able to post the original emoticons as well as their variants, like 😉 as a winking face and >:-( as an angry face. Typography continued ...

Happy birthday, sideways smiley face! Wednesday marks the 30th birthday of the emoticon. The computer symbol for “not serious” or now more generally “happiness,” made up of a colon ...

In a discussion of possible solutions, Fahlman off-handedly suggested denoting humorous posts with a text smiley face: :-) And so the first text emoticon was born, 40 years ago today, on Sept.

The emoji is a flipped version of the usual smile face which is one of the most used emoticons. It can be used in a similar way as the shrugging emoji, which represents the saying "oh well".

Sure, it’s annoying when someone tells you to smile — but, regardless of your mood, it’s totally possible to have your nails smile for you (and that’s never annoying). Slapping a smiley ...