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 ...

From :) to ¯\(°_o)/¯, there are now thousands of emoticons, and as Chris Baraniuk discovers, some can even sway our behaviour. It all started with an awkward moment online. In the early 1980s, ...

Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering mobile technology news and reviewing the latest gadgets for the last six years. His work can also be found on sister site CNET ...

Concerned that using exclamation points and emoticons in your customer support correspondence will come across as frivolous or unprofessional? Don’t be. Research shows that subject matter experts who ...

Since the dawn of humanity, mankind has communicated via symbols. Indeed, it was a turning point for civilisation when the Sumerians carved a GOT BARLEY? icon on a rock. (The Sumerians also invented ...

With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical ...

May 27, 2013— -- intro: Emoticons can help us to either completely lose our minds or retain our sanity as we communicate with one another online and through texts. While a passive aggressive ...

It's rare for Microsoft products to invoke a pleasant sense of nostalgia, but MSN Messenger is a piece of software that does. The instant messaging software has been long dead, with Microsoft pulling ...

You have probably never met Professor Scott Fahlman of Mellon Carnegie University but, like it or not, he has rewired both your brain and mine. In 1982, the computer science lecturer was writing on an ...