I can guarantee that made someone smile. A simple resolution for the New Year if you employ younger Generation Y workers, is to on occasion when writing emails to your individual staff, to use ...

With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical ...

With communication moving at the speed of light, it makes sense that you'd want to take the quickest path possible to inform your employees of your emotions. Doing this via text message requires just ...

In many social situations, smiling can smooth interactions. People who smile are seen as more attractive, honest, and warm. 1 Smilers are also seen as more competent, suggesting that putting on a ...

EVER NOTICED those funny faces made up of punctuation marks and symbols used in e-mail and chat room messages? Those creative keystrokes are called 'emoticons' - a combination of the words 'emotion' ...

The emoticons, which began as happy and sad faces, have developed into dozens of other expressions, and have become hugely popular in text messages and email. The study by Rice University used ...

PITTSBURGH (WHTM) — In 1982, the internet was in its toddler stage. The World Wide Web (www) wouldn’t be released to the public until 1993. (Yes, “internet” and “www” are two different things.) Email ...

In a recent study published in PLoS ONE, researchers investigated the impact of touch during digital communications. They evaluated the role of tactile emoticons in sensing social acceptance and ...