It's the latest issue dividing the generations: just what's in a wink when you add one to a message? Older people tend to use the winking face emoji to signify a jokey mood, but for youngsters it ...

As if there aren't already enough opportunities for confusion and awkwardness for foreigners in Germany, here's another one to add to the mix - certain emojis mean different things here than they do ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Millennials, rejoice: A winking-face emoji is worth a slew of ironic words. The brain interprets irony or sarcasm conveyed by an emoji in the same way as it does verbal banter, ...

Modern electronic emoticons date to a 1982 e-mail from Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist who proposed using the sequence of characters :-) as a “joke marker” to help his colleagues decipher jokes ...

And just like that, N. Gray goes from being an ordinary Jamaican to a #SuperMillionaire. Congratulations from Supreme Ventures. pic.twitter.com/OUrOkEvanc — Supreme ...

There was no disrespect intended when a winking-face emoji headlined a 75-year-old Spanish woman's newspaper obituary notice. In fact, her family did it on her request. Grandma apparently loved that ...