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 ...

You can send a GIF on Instagram DM from your Android or iPhone mobile app by using the GIPHY keyboard.

ADELAIDE, Australia, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- According to a study by researchers at Flinders University in Australia, smiley face emoticons trigger the same part of the brain as a human face. In the study, ...

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 ...

In the early days of the internet, computer scientist Scott Fahlman ran into a problem on Carnegie Mellon University’s online bulletin boards. People used the bulletin boards — a kind of primitive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carol Kinsey Goman is a contributor on body language and presence. Whenever I give a presentation on the impact of body language ...

Think you’re being nice when you add a smiley face to the end of your email? According to one study, you could be conveying something else. The new study, titled the "The Dark Side of a Smiley," ...