But, like any form of communication, they can be misused, and they are, frequently. Here is an incomplete list of the times when you are NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES to use a smiley emoticon. Also, ...

Emojis and emoticons are showing up just about everywhere, but that doesn't mean they're always appropriate for the workplace--should you use them?

Obviously you don't want to go overboard with emoticons, but a smiley face here and there never hurts. It's never going to replace a an honest, human smile but it may be your best text-based ...

Google clearly knows that people love emoticons, as it's now added a choice of well over 1,000 of the things to its new compose window in Gmail.

The young folks may not believe it, but emoticons -- those silly strings of symbols that are supposed to illustrate emotions -- have been around for 30 years.

I once attended an e-mail etiquette roundtable in which the moderator made this blanket statement: "Never, ever use emoticons in business e-mail." Big, bold words. And they're completely wrong.

Pro tip: Keep the smiley faces out of your work emails, or else the person receiving the message may think you’re incompetent. That’s according to a study published in “Social Psychological ...

We may not spend a lot of time thinking about the emoticons we insert into our emails and text messages, but it turns out that they reveal something interesting about the way we perceive facial ...

Think of emoticons as the traditional smiley face -- with a lot more personality. Crafting an emoticon like the shrug-face takes a lot more work than an emoji, though.