Social network tries to make things easier with more expressions to use in status updates. Sure%2C facial looks can powerfully communicate%2C but emoticons are bare-bones imitations. Words allow us to ...

Facebook emoticons are an easy way to make your Facebook updates stand out and show how you feel without using a dozen words to explain that you have a broken heart and need a drink. This guide will ...

Facebook engineer Arturo Bejar talked to the folks over at Popular Science, discussing how the new emoticons available for Messenger were created. In early 2012, the engineer crossed paths with a UC ...

Hey, we’re willing to try anything that’ll keep drama out of our News Feed. It all started with Facebook grasping for ways to deal with interpersonal issues–think pissy complaints from users whose ...

We already know there's a tie between emojis usage and sex, but a new study just found that emoticons are impacting our love lives in more ways — and this time it's all about Facebook jealousy. The ...

Prepare to drive your friends nuts on Facebook ... with emoticons.Previously limited to Facebook messages and chat, a large number of emoticons will now appear in Facebook comments. This means that ...

Facebook wants to convey contemplation, admiration, maternal love and resignation with its new emoticons. Facebook has commissioned Pixar story illustrator Matt Jones to create new emoticons on a ...

Attention teens and the adults that act like them: Facebook has added emoticons to Chat on the web. While before you could use text like :) to create a smile or even :putnam: to show a picture of an ...

For the longest time, Facebook has allowed Chat users to send smileys and other emoticons in their messages. In a silent update at the end of last week, the company moved them beyond instant messages ...

The next time you comment on a friend's Facebook post, you can include emoticons — those old-school icons that appear when you type a prescribed set of characters such as :-). Unlike Facebook mobile ...

Oh noes. Facebook has activated emoticons in the comments. That means that now your Facebook page will get full of all kinds of smileys. And, for some reason, sharks. The emoticons are not available ...