Emotion is something that is incredibly difficult to get across in a digital format. Aside from ending your texts with “lol” to appear less threatening, or ending a tweet with “/s” to indicate sarcasm ...

This summer, Facebook rolled out "stickers" on its website: cartoony takes on the emoticon for users to post in their chats, from a love-struck cactus to a pizza-eating cat. Still, for many of us, the ...

Emoticons and emojis might be the default language of the Internet generation, but the actual emoticon is more than a century old. It was in an 1881 issue of Puck Magazine, a now defunct humour rag, ...

The emoticon is old. Or, young, 30 years young! Either way, it's a bona fide grown-up symbol now, with the life experience under its lack of a belt (for it has no waist) to prove it. But it has ...