Today emoticons are so pervasive that behavioral science has taken an active interest in how people use them. Among the evidence (recently surveyed by Roni Jacobson at the great new Science of Us blog ...

“Have you tried the Chun-guma emoticon? It's free until tomorrow, so hurry and get it.” “Free use ends today. It's a shame.” This year marks the 14th anniversary of Kakao starting its emoticon ...

Doosan Bears are launching the Mangreojin Bear collaboration emoticons. Doosan announced on the 11th, "We will release the Mangreojin Bear and KakaoTalk collaboration emoticons on the 12th." The ...

Looking to spice up your conversations? Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail all support UTF-8 Unicode special characters. These UTF-8 special characters are symbols that don’t appear on a standard keyboard ...

This summer, Facebook rolled out "stickers" on its website: cartoony takes on the emoticon for users to post in their chats, from a love-struck cactus to a pizza-eating cat. Still, for many of us, the ...

Lauren Collister is a member of the Linguistics Society of America. Of course, language does change when it’s used to text or write messages on the internet. It’s even become the focus of the field of ...