Women might use emoticons more than men, but men have a broader emoticon vocabulary. That’s what researchers from Rice University are saying in a new study that evaluated the use of emoticons in text ...

Skype Insiders on all platforms are getting updates today, which will include what Microsoft is calling personalized ...

Emotion is something that is incredibly difficult to get across in a digital format. Aside from ending your texts with “lol” to appear less threatening, or ending a tweet with “/s” to indicate sarcasm ...

"Understood."Even though it's just a few words, it can sometimes look like you're a little angry.Even if the person who wrote it didn't intend it that way, short sentences can come across as stiffer ...

Emoticons have been around a lot longer than one might think. In a March 30, 1881 item in Puck which included typographical representations of joy, melancholy, indifference, and astonishment, it was ...

First, Google brought emoticons to Gmail. Then, they added hundreds more by way of Google Labs. Today, another chapter has been added to the annals of Gmail’s emoticon history as the Goog announced ...

For better or worse, emoticons of all configurations are ubiquitous in our text-speak world and the basic smiley, :-), is recognised by pretty much everyone as a happy face. But how exactly do we ...

This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. Do you remember seeing your first emoticon? The first documented use of “:-)” dates back to 1982, when Scott Fahlman proposed that it be used as a ...