Pick a screen, any screen, and chances are someone is deep in a text conversation. While phone calls are still around, ...

EVERYONE loves using emojis in their texts to try and describe how they’re really feeling. However, some are a bit more difficult to know how to use them. So, what is the upside-down smiley? … ...

New study shows emojis boost how caring and responsive you seem—helping friendships thrive, even through text.

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

From a simple thumbs up to a laughing cowboy, there is an emoji for almost any conceivable moment. But it is the humble smiley face which is the most iconic of them all. However, if you've been ...

Of course the smiley face wasn’t always just an emoji. It actually has a steeper history that’s older than any Gen Z. According to The Guardian, the smiley face was invented in 1963 “as a ...

The smiley face emoji is no longer being perceived as joyful. The generation born between 1997 and 2012 finds it to be anything but positive. Yup, that's right.

The first emoticon — the text smiley — sprang into existence 40 years ago on Sept. 19, 1982, and emojis have been part of online life ever since.

Today, on the 40th birthday of the original emoticon, it would appear that those classic emoticons are old-fashioned, as emojis reign supreme. It wasn’t a bad run, ...