Facebook lets you add special characters such as smileys, hearts and diamonds by using the "Alt" key codes that are built into Windows. There are several hundred special characters that you can choose ...

Scott E. Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University claims to be the inventor of the smiley, or emoticon. What started as a colon and an end parenthesis in 1982 on a university bulletin board to indicate a ...

Smileys emoticons or emojis are those fun faces and characters that people started using in emails text messages blog posts communication and social media posts. Some people find them annoying though.

Your emoticons will be able to do a lot more than just smile, laugh and shed a few tears if Facebook has its way. The social networking giant is teaming up It has come to our attention that certain ...

Chances are that you’ve seen one or two of these floating around, but I bet you didn’t know that you could add penguins, sharks or even Chris Putnam to your messages, chat and comments. Now, thanks to ...