In everyday digital communication, emojis and emoticons are indispensable. But do these terms mean the same thing? They actually do not. The post What Is the Difference Between Emoji and Emoticon?

Emoji and emoticons are often confused for being the same thing. Here’s a newsflash for you: They’re not. Even though emoticons predate emoji by almost 20 years, it’s easy to see why people ...

The distorted face emoji won for the Most Anticipated Emoji for 2025, and the melting face (🫠) emoji won the Lifetime Achievement Award. The melting face emoji is now the youngest emoji to receive ...

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. We’re all used to typing emoji on our smartphones and ...

Emoji — the pictogram prodigy of text-based emoticons — can be found everywhere. In less than two decades, the ideograms of modern times have become internet shorthand for emotion: They ...

Yes, there are hordes of emoji to play with now, especially compared to the old days of MSN Messenger. But let us never forget the emoticons that sadly never made the switch.

Emoji includes a much wider variety of predetermined mini-images than any Gchat emoticon-user could dream of.

Emoji might be a defining piece of Internet- and mobile-speak, but the icons offer little to those who aren’t white, in heterosexual relationships, or own a brown and white dog. Frustrated users ...

So for just one day, in honor of the emoticon's 35th birthday, quit scrolling through that endless emoji keyboard and instead use one of these 35 more advanced emoticons to communicate not only ...

Halverson: We found that emoji and emoticons definitely added new information. Almost all of them were adding some context. Primarily, that was emotional, like emotive disambiguation.