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 ...

No more winks, nudges, or shoddy modem connections cutting into your emoticon battles with your best friend (everyone did that, right?): Microsoft's MSN Messenger will officially be signing off Oct.

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 ...

Lee Gwang Soo's messenger emoticons will be released in China. On May 3rd, a representative of King Kong Entertainment announced that actor Lee Gwang Soo's messenger emoticons will be officially ...

their loved one via IM. It’s Not You, It’s Me: Some things are better said in person. Men and women both agree that telling someone “things aren’t working out” or “we should break up” is better said ...

Smilies are so 1990s. Emoticons have evolved to another level in Taiwan after users started making their own animated GIF files and swapping them through chat programs such as the popular MSN ...

Emoticons no longer have to be anonymous smiley faces representing simple emotions. Facebook Chat now lets you use the profile picture of any user, official Page, or event on the service as an ...

In the future, there will be no more words. If you’ve been vexed by people who type in “ur” instead of “you are”, and feel confused with acronyms more uncommon than LOL (laugh out loud) in your ...

If you use chat on Google+ or Gchat in Gmail, you’re probably familiar with certain emoticons that turn into animations. For example, “<3" will animated into a red heart. Here are some more, shared ...