Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark ...

But they don't teach emoticons in school, and some of them are actually hard to understand — at least for some of us. Below we've listed the actual definitions for all the main emoticons.

Texting has become a main form of communication for the current generation. Since texting’s invention, emoticons have also existed. Emoticons utilized characters on the keypad to make faces, ...