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 ...

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We already know that sarcasm is hard to communicate via email. Well, according to this study, it turns out that warmth is as well. People often use smiley face emoticons in their emails as a way to ...

New research shows that we're creating a whole new type of brain activity to handle all those passive-aggressive smileys people are putting at the end of their texts. We've talked about pareidolia ...

Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley ...

With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical ...

Facebook lets you add special characters such as smileys, hearts and diamonds by using the "Alt" key codes that are built into Windows. There are several hundred special characters that you can choose ...

Are you using too many emoji or emoticons in formal e-mails? Then stop at once! This might be putting a negative impact on your professional image at office. Using too many emoji reflects incompetence ...

We often think of emoticons arriving with the invention of text speak - when people first started to send messages using mobile phones and in emails. But the first emoticon – specifically the smiley ...

In many social situations, smiling can smooth interactions. People who smile are seen as more attractive, honest, and warm. 1 Smilers are also seen as more competent, suggesting that putting on a ...

Emoticons such as smiley and sad faces are changing the way our brain works, Australian researchers have claimed. They say the use of the punctuation faces trigger parts of the brain usually reserved ...

Crusaders in the fight against childhood obesity have discovered a powerful new weapon – the green smiley-faced emoticon. When placed near cartons of plain nonfat milk in school cafeterias, the ...