Aside from ending your texts with “lol” to appear less threatening, ... The first emoticon was posted to a Carnegie Mellon University message board on September 19, 1982.

What does that heart-eyes emoji mean, ... Smiling Face With Open Mouth Emoji 😀. Also known as: Smiley Face, ... Cheeky Emoji, Licky Face, "LOL JK Love You" Face.

According to their data, the “Face With Tears of Joy” emoji, also known as LOL Emoji or Laughing Emoji, comprised nearly 20% of all emoji use in the U.S. and the U.K., where Oxford is based.

Our frustrated emoji year: A laughing-through-tears smiley face is the Oxford dictionary "word" of 2015 This rakish face embodying an ineffable mix of hilarity and crying beat out "refugee" and ...

These super easy last-minute emoji Halloween costume ideas are ... Let these emoticon-inspired costumes solve your 11th-hour dress-up ... Here are a few ideas to make your Halloween LOL-worthy: 1.

Are you an "LOL"-er or a "haha"-er? Or maybe you're the king of "hehe's" or the queen of smiley-face emoji. A new Facebook study shows that your way of expressing laughter on social media may have ...

Here, says Evans, smileys have nudged out abbreviations with similar meanings, such as “lol”. ... Anyone can invent an emoticon, but a new emoji must survive multistage vetting.

July 17th was World Emoji Day, ... Jamie Foxx sang: "LOL, smiley face, the emoji with the tongue out/ Now I'm kissing you, touching you, freaking you over at your house." READ MORE.

Consider emoji in the context of all the other linguistic innovations people owe to digital communication---not just emoticons and kaomoji, but netspeak, lolspeak, dogespeak, 13375p3ak, reaction ...