Pick a screen, any screen, and chances are someone is deep in a text conversation. While phone calls are still around, ...

New research shows that adding those tiny digital images to your texts can make you look more attentive and caring. In a ...

Plenty of parents see covering up their children’s faces online as a happy medium, allowing them to share family snaps ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

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.

Using the wrong emoji at work can shift the meaning of your message. Staying curious about tone and generational preferences ...

You may have been sending the smiley face emoji wrong, warn experts. For younger generations, this smile actually symbolises an insincere smile and can be seen as passive-aggressive ...

Apple added eight new emoji to all iPhones when the company released iOS 18.4 in March, and Samsung brought those same emoji to some devices in April with the initial release of One UI 7. The new ...

Smiley Faces in Serious Places: Emoji Use Pops Up in Legal Battles Over Inheritances. Estate planning attorney notes how emojis are crossing over from casual conversation to litigation.

Waving hand, smiley face, thumbs up. Word of Mouth's Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright have been looking at emoji - possibly the world's first truly global form of communication. Here are some ...