Often when we talk about icons expressing emotions, we tend to use the words emoji and emoticon interchangeably. However, Merriam-Webster has revealed that the two words aren’t the same! ‘Emoticon’ ...

Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because before there were emoji, there were emoticons. Emoticons were the pictorial ...

The site sorts emoji into nine categories, including Smileys, People, Objects, Activity and more. Each category then breaks down emoji into further subsections. So if you click into Smileys, for ...

You can use this as many times as you want, but you can only choose up to 113 emoji to combine and they are all smileys. That means you can't be as creative in your creation as you might be in the ...

As the world celebrates Valentine's Day, an employee of social media platform X has shared a message from her mother for none ...

the huge potential of emoticons as a communication tool became clear – and in 2001, Smiley played a key role in the growth of emoji culture by creating the Smiley Dictionary, which aimed to ...

Researchers found that women who used words like "ambitious," "sweet," and "thoughtful" were more often messaged by ...

Popular television actress Rubina Dilaik flaunted her “desi” side as she looked every inch gorgeous in a mustard-hued Indian ensemble.

Loufrani’s decision to develop the iconic grin of the Original Smiley into the more nuanced, expressive world of emoticons was hugely influential for the ubiquitous emoji culture that followed, but it ...

Abhishek Bachchan is celebrating his 49th birthday today on 5th February 2025. Farah Khan used social media to wish the 'Guru' actor on his special day. The filmmaker dropped a fun video on her ...