Apple and Samsung brought nine new emoji to their devices this year with the releases of iOS 18.4 and One UI 7. The new emoji ...

You don't even have to think about what to say, because the image says it all. And that's great and all, except that I hate it. In fact, I wish emoji had never replaced emoticons, and here's why.

The smiley face emoticon was first placed in a post to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general board by Professor Scott E. Fahlman in 1982.

Even though emoticons predate emoji by almost 20 years, it’s easy to see why people mix them up. They sound similar and serve essentially the same purpose.

5. The "telling secrets" emoticon Image: microsoft "Telling secrets" was never really used in conversation, unlike its modern emoji equivalents, zipped-mouth face or speak-no-evil monkey.

Pro tip: Keep the smiley faces out of your work emails, or else the person receiving the message may think you’re incompetent. That’s according to a study published in “Social Psychological ...

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 ...

Users of Outlook on Office 365, Microsoft's subscription-based cloud productivity suite, will find that the ":)" emoticon will actually get autocorrrected into a standard emoji.

Sure doesn’t seem like it. While normal emoticons did produce a large N170 signal, inverted emoticons produced a smaller one (below), the researchers report in a 2014 issue of Social Neuroscience.

Thankfully, in 2017, Microsoft added an emoji picker accessible via a simple keyboard shortcut: Win + . In other words, hold the start button and period at the same time and you’ll see a pop-up ...

But the emoticon is so damn needy. The smiley is the snare drum rimshot of online communication (which makes the frowny the sad trombone). It clings to your virtual leg, begging for your approval.

The First Graphical Emoticons: 42 Smileys. DALLAS, Texas (July 5, 2022) — In celebration of World Emoji Day, Heritage Auctions will present an event sure to put smiles on faces. The Smiley ...