However, recent stories have placed the light squarely on emoji once more, so here are five things you might not know about the modern-day lingua franca. 1. Emojis are about to get more diverse ...

But first you have to know what the emoji even mean, so we asked people who use the images in their online identities. Here's some of the most pervasive symbols floating throughout our Twitter feeds.

Parents seem to love emoji, but they don't always get it right. "My dad uses the kissing heart in texts and I know he means it in like a loving parent way, but it makes me want to run for the ...

There may not be anyone who knows more about emoticons than Tyler Schnoebelen, a man who literally wrote his Stanford doctorate thesis on the subject. He found, for instance, that older people ...