It's rare for Microsoft products to invoke a pleasant sense of nostalgia, but MSN Messenger is a piece of software that does. The instant messaging software has been long dead, with Microsoft ...

We may not spend a lot of time thinking about the emoticons we insert into our emails and text messages, but it turns out that they reveal something interesting about the way we perceive facial ...

You know, like just moved to New York City and are single, except they're 26 and I'm 36." The first time I spoke to Rachel was in 2015, ...

On first blush, you'd guess that dudes don't like emoticons because they're too cute. And that makes sense. Think about the fellows you know who use emoticons. Do they like Disney, animation and ...

When To Use the Like Emoticon (or Avoid It) Gottsman says the OG "like" emoticon means "Got it, good job and OK." Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Emoticons: a :-) :-) thing. They have become so common in online and SMS conversations that we react to a colon-hyphen-parenthesis in the same way as to a human smile, says Samuel Muston ...

Legendary GIF artist Olia Lialina has been experimenting with the format for more than 15 years. “I love reaction GIFs much more than emoticons,” she told the Daily Dot. “They are ‘hyper ...

It’s no wonder, then, that Facebook has invested in developing sophisticated picture-like emoticons. Last year, psychologist Dacher Keltner of University of California, Berkeley was commissioned ...

The emoticon is old. Or, young, 30 years young! Either way, it's a bona fide grown-up symbol now, with the life experience under its lack of a belt (for it has no waist) to prove it.

Animated emoticons can add flair to a website, email or other type of electronic medium. While they may look like video files, they're typically a series of GIF images placed together -- much like ...