Adding emojis in text messages is relatively easy. Just open up your SMS messaging app, and at the bottom of the conversation where you input your text, look out for a smiley face icon.

This week, Facebook Messenger took matters into its own chat, releasing 1,500 new emoji that are not only diverse in skin tone and gender, they’re also consistent across whatever platform you ...

While SMS in Messenger will support texting, photos, videos, audio, and content like emoji and stickers, you’ll still have to use Messenger to send things like payments and GIFs. Facebook ...

Whichever emoji you choose will replace Facebook’s generic thumbs up emoji button. ... You can replace Messenger with SMS on Android. This one is just for Android users.

To win chat, Facebook Messenger must be as accessible as SMS, yet more entertaining than Snapchat. Today, Messenger pushes on both fronts with a series of announcements at Facebook’s F8 conference.

Facebook has always lacked a "Dislike" button for the News Feed. Now Facebook is testing the waters with a "Dislike" button, but it is likely going to be available just for the Messenger service.

Emojis that got their start in Japan with text messages in the mid-1990s are increasingly replacing words on messaging apps. Nearly one out of 10 mobile messages on Messenger include the colorful ...

Facebook first added SMS support to Messenger's Android app back in 2012, but later pulled the feature. Now, with an increasing emphasis on Messenger, the social network is likely hoping to ramp ...

Aside from text, images, video, and audio, SMS on Messenger can also support rich content including stickers, emoji, and location sharing. Messenger still boasts a number of unique features that ...

Sending SMS via Messenger includes text, pictures, videos, and audio snippets, but content such as stickers, emoji, GIFs, and voice/video calls will require the use of Messenger's data functions.

Using only actual words for communicating via text is no longer enough, particularly because current smartphones come lots of fun emoji that let us better express ourselves while messaging. But ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Messenger is adding 1,500 emojis including more than 100 to better reflect a diversity of gender and skin tones.