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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts' tips on when to use certain Facebook reactions and when to avoid them. When Facebook introduced the thumbs-up emoticon in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of the social network's online and mobile users will be able to express how they're feeling or what they're doing from their status bar. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney – March 11, 2015) — Fat is no longer a feeling, at least on Facebook. The company removed the “feeling fat” emoticon Tuesday after a backlash from a group that said it makes fun of ...