You are about to send a text message. Should you express an emotion with words or an emoji? According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, ...

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 ...

Drumroll please: The most popular brand-new emoji of 2025, based on the Unicode 16.0 list, is ... Face with Bags Under the ...

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 ...

The humble smiley face emoticon, now a staple of online communication, owes its origin to a physics joke that didn't hit ...

These days there are more than 3,000 available emojis, from sloths to dumplings to yogis, to help us express every nuance, emotion, and joke that occurs to us over text. Which of this bounty of ...

What used to be seen as an innocent, fun way of communicating could now carry huge legal risks as cases involving emojis increase around the world. Within the last decade, more cases that involved the ...

That evening, computer scientist Howard Gayle responded with a facetious message titled “WARNING!” He claimed that an ...

I used to pride myself on never ending — or beginning — text messages or emails or social media posts with a smiley face or a heart or a winky emoji, on never using such emojis at all. I used to ...

When it comes to sleep, dessert, and feminist television, more is more — and the same is true for emoji. After all, why accept a smaller amount of a great thing when you can have a bigger amount? It ...

Before I say anything, let me just tell you: I get it, and I agree flirting is exhausting. If the world were perfect, we’d be able to tell people we liked them telepathically. But unfortunately, we ...