The Unicode Consortium is a nonprofit devoted to developing, maintaining and promoting software standards and data, and it ...

World Emoji Day started in 2014. It's celebrated every year on July 17 because that's the date shown on the calendar emoji 📅. It's a day that celebrates how emoji help people express themselves in a ...

As if anyone needed it, there’s a new way to kill time on social media. Instagram has hidden an emoji-based game within the direct messaging feature of their smartphone app — and people are ...

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

Despite seeming like a universal language – and sometimes they do function that way – emojis can be at once more vague, and ...

Social networks love emoji. And those better-than-real-words icons love social networks right back. Emojli is possibly the next step in that blossoming relationship: a social network with "no ...

But this gesture towards protecting children's privacy could be luring parents into a sense of false confidence, with some online safety experts suggesting that such measures are merely "security ...

A new tool called the Emoji Reaction Project helps you do just that. The clever Chrome extension transforms your negative Facebook emoji reactions into tangible ways to support good causes and ...

When used correctly, emojis can convey emotion, provide context and help you engage and connect with your community. When choosing emojis for your content, keep these best practices in mind.

The watermelon emoji has been popular among people supporting Palestinians while trying to evade what they argue is suppression of their speech on social media.

In this week's One Good Thing, we ask author Kate Lucey why she recommends using an emoji shorthand for when you need mental health support.

Today, I'm caking my FAVE SOCIAL ICONS! I've ALWAYS wanted to create an emoji version of myself, so that's why I've caked up two adorable chocolate YouTube and Instagram icons and a chocolate ...