In the span of a few years, emoji—the smiley faces, hearts, flags and other small pictures installed in most smartphone, email and chat programs—have become ubiquitous in digital communication ...

The next emoji Osiris Aristy posts on social media might be a smiley face with a tongue sticking out. ... Winking smiley face: Brooklyn teen boy’s emoji… Share this: ...

Of course the smiley face wasn’t always just an emoji. It actually has a steeper history that’s older than any Gen Z. According to The Guardian, the smiley face was invented in 1963 “as a ...

To make things more interesting, some emails contained smiley face emoji while others didn’t. The outcome revealed that, contrary to smiling in person, the smiley emoticons had no effect on ...

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.

Look, I’m no emoji expert, but there’s one thing I do know: The basic smiley emoji is a goddamn liar. And using it makes you a liar, too. I first noticed ...

Emojis were created to convey thoughts more easily - but they seem more confusing than ever. Texting someone your age or ...