With communication moving at the speed of light, it makes sense that you'd want to take the quickest path possible to inform your employees of your emotions. Doing this via text message requires just ...

Emoticons … those funny little things that don’t really serve a purpose in the advancement of humanity, but just seem to make life that much more enjoyable. Yeah ...

Language is always evolving. Pick up a book printed 100 years ago and it’s clear that English has come a long way. But English has changed significantly even since the advent of computers. Language is ...

Sure, you use the Messages app to send along SMS and iMessages all day long. You know how to use Emoji’s, too, with a tap on the international keyboard button on your iPhone. I bet you even use ...

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Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study from Rice University. The symbols, which began as happy and sad smiling faces but have since morphed into ...

In the early days of the internet, computer scientist Scott Fahlman ran into a problem on Carnegie Mellon University’s online bulletin boards. People used the bulletin boards — a kind of primitive ...

Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study. Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study from Rice ...