Hey, we’re willing to try anything that’ll keep drama out of our News Feed. It all started with Facebook grasping for ways to deal with interpersonal issues–think pissy complaints from users whose ...

Facebook emoticons are an easy way to make your Facebook updates stand out and show how you feel without using a dozen words to explain that you have a broken heart and need a drink. This guide will ...

Some Facebook users can now go beyond simply updating their status — they can put an emoticon on the moment. Facebook last night rolled out what it’s calling “a really small test” across its Web site ...

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 ...

Experts' tips on when to use certain Facebook reactions and when to avoid them. When Facebook introduced the thumbs-up emoticon in 2009, it was pretty straightforward. If you liked something, you ...

Attention teens and the adults that act like them: Facebook has added emoticons to Chat on the web. While before you could use text like :) to create a smile or even :putnam: to show a picture of an ...

Facebook engineer Arturo Bejar talked to the folks over at Popular Science, discussing how the new emoticons available for Messenger were created. In early 2012, the engineer crossed paths with a UC ...

Emoticons no longer have to be anonymous smiley faces representing simple emotions. Facebook Chat now lets you use the profile picture of any user, official Page, or event on the service as an ...

We already know there's a tie between emojis usage and sex, but a new study just found that emoticons are impacting our love lives in more ways — and this time it's all about Facebook jealousy. The ...

Social network tries to make things easier with more expressions to use in status updates. Sure%2C facial looks can powerfully communicate%2C but emoticons are bare-bones imitations. Words allow us to ...