How to Text Emoticons. ... Doing this via text message requires just a couple buttons on your cell phone, but the key is to know which characters work together to form these funny faces.

The study, "A Longitudinal Study of Emoticon Use in Text Messaging from Smartphones," used smartphone data from men and women over six months and aggregated 124,000 text messages.

Can a simple emoticon depicting a smiley face make all the difference to email? It most certainly can, especially when dealing with younger Generation Y employees.

Emoticons—such as :-)—and emoji are ubiquitous in online and mobile communications; according to one study, 74 percent of Americans use emoticons, emoji and similar images on a regular basis ...

However, the researchers recorded 74 different kinds of emoticons in these messages. Three emoticons – happy :), sad 🙁 and very happy 😀 – accounted for 70 percent of emoticon use. The researchers ...

They have the potential to punctuate a word, a thought or a feeling in a way that is understood on a more sensory level. These emoticons can range from basic smiley faces to icons of animals and ...

Study: Tactile emoticons: Conveying social emotions and intentions with manual and robotic tactile feedback during social media communications.Image Credit: Sichon/Shutterstock.com. Background ...

Like them or not, emoji and emoticons add information, context to clinical text messages. ByJennifer Byrne. ... emoji and emoticons have become a common feature of medical communications.However, ...

Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study from Rice University. Emoticons are graphic symbols that use punctuation marks and letters to represent ...