Some smartphone users even mistake the emoticon for a tears of sadness face. In 2010, Unicode introduced the emoji, which is actually meant to represent “tears of joy”. It's a common mistake ...

A few weeks ago, after I said goodbye to a friend who was moving across the country, I texted her an emoji of a crying face ... By analyzing emoticon use on Twitter, Schnoebelen has found that ...

What do you mean broccoli-broccoli-crying face ... are far older than the sideways smiley. While it is debated whether it was deliberate or a typo, the first emoticon in print may have been ...

I sent the crying while laughing emoji, so he knew I was kidding.” In other situations, the emoji reflects situations that are a bit more grim. “Laughing through tears” is frequently used as ...

Frowny face. A study just published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that including a smiley emoticon (":)") or an emoji (a picture of a smiley face ...

We're all familiar with the smiley emoticon, and its power to add levity, flirtation, and occasionally passive-aggression to our texts, chats, and e-mails. But according to researchers ...

The Smiley Award, sponsored by Yahoo ... sentiments that otherwise would be difficult to detect. Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m ...

But the first emoticon – specifically the smiley face – could have been used much earlier. Literary critic Levi Stahl came across a poem written in 1648 which includes what could be the first ...

A dedicated poetry reader appears to have discovered a smiley face in a poem from 1648, a find that would extend the pre-history of the emoticon back by about 200 years. Editor Levi Stahl ...