Facebook Chat now lets you use the profile picture of any user, official Page, or event on the service as an emoticon. That means you can make one out of your best friend, Chuck Norris, Justin ...

Typography continued to evolve as wingdings were developed in 1990, allowing users access to symbols through their keyboard. Pictographic representations of everything from smiley faces to ...

However, when the smiley faces were inverted – so (-: instead of the more established :-) – there was no recognition. So if you are writing your smileys that way, you’re doing it wrong.

According to Know Your Meme, the face had been dubbed “Le Lenny Face,” “Le Face Face,” and “Le ... /Facebook. According to Topsy, the emoticon has been tweeted over 17,000 times in ...

Social network tries to make things easier with more expressions to use in status updates. Sure%2C facial looks can powerfully communicate%2C but emoticons are bare-bones imitations.

Language experts say the smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments that otherwise ...

Having first appeared in the 1980s, the pattern of brain activity triggered by looking at an emoticon smiley face is now the same as when someone sees a real smiling human face, ...

Facebook allows you to let the world know just how you’re feeling: excited, happy, sad, annoyed, maybe sick. Each feeling comes with its own emoticon. But one of those options doesn’t sit well ...