Emoji-fying your children is a way to provide an insight into what you and your (doubtless very cute) family are up to, without plastering their features all over the internet in perpetuity.

Parents are embracing this approach to protect their kids’ identities until they can make their own choices about how to present themselves online.

Be the first to comment. To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

The evolution from the smiley face to emojis took a detour in the 1980s with emoticons, melding “emotion” and “icon” (a word similar to “emoji” conceptually but not etymologically). All emoticons are ...

They include an exhausted face with bags under the eyes, a root vegetable, and a shovel. NEW YORK -- Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes.

These “emoji-over-face” parents are often met with confusion or criticism, accused of being overly cautious or even paranoid. But in a digital age where every post can become permanent ...