Smileys emoticons or emojis are those fun faces and characters that people started using in emails text messages blog posts communication and social media posts. Some people find them annoying though.

Scott E. Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University claims to be the inventor of the smiley, or emoticon. What started as a colon and an end parenthesis in 1982 on a university bulletin board to indicate a ...

Your emoticons will be able to do a lot more than just smile, laugh and shed a few tears if Facebook has its way. The social networking giant is teaming up Your emoticons will be able to do a lot more ...

Reddit user dnmn8r tracked the number of smiley faces that were used in conversation with their girlfriend on Facebook Messenger since the start of their relationship. They then imported the eight ...

Washington: Scientists have developed a new computer model that can decode how people use emoticons to express themselves on social media platforms like Facebook. The computer model—called robust ...

Get ready to make some noise! To celebrate World Emoji Day, Facebook is giving a voice – or rather sounds – to some of its emojis. The platform has unveiled Soundmojis – emojis that make sounds – for ...

Forget the like button - that's so 2009. Facebook says it's bringing in several emoticons you'll be able to use instead soon. (Thumb fans, don't despair, that's not going anywhere). The new "reactions ...

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel took to Twitter to clear up some fake rumors about Snapchat shutting down and to tweet a smiley-faced emoji to a man who told Spiegel he had deleted his Facebook account.