Will covering your child’s face with an emoji actually protect their privacy? - IN FOCUS: Plenty of parents see covering up their children’s faces online as a happy medium, allowing them to share ...

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

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.

Using the wrong emoji at work can shift the meaning of your message. Staying curious about tone and generational preferences ...

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

Parents are embracing this approach to protect their kids’ identities until they can make their own choices about how to ...

The humble smiley-face emoji has become a sign of discontent, while the laughing-crying emoji is now "uncool." How do you ...

The use of emojis in text messaging improves perceived responsiveness and thereby enhances closeness and relationship ...

Emoji-fying your children is a way to provide an insight into what you and your (doubtless very cute) family are up to, without plastering their features all over the internet in perpetuity.

I need to be brutally honest here: putting an emoji over a child’s face provides virtually no real privacy protection ...