5. Abraham Lincoln might have been the first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the difference between emoticons and emoji, Professor Vyv Evans remarked on what might well have been the first ...

You can use this as many times as you want, but you can only choose up to 113 emoji to combine and they are all smileys. That means you can't be as creative in your creation as you might be in the ...

But they don't teach emoticons in school, and some of them are actually hard to understand — at least for some of us. Below we've listed the actual definitions for all the main emoticons.

Researchers at Amsterdam University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Haifa recently teamed up to investigate the effect of smileys and similar emoticons on ...