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 ...

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 ...

Last week, a number of users started noticing that Facebook Comments now supports chat emoticons. It doesn’t work on status update, although users and page owners can use and see it on the comment ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook's added an emoticon for all its users celebrating the DOMA demise. June 27, 2013 — -- Google's not the only technology company making its support for marriage equality known with fun ...

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 ...