Butterflies, beavers, panda bears — open your phone and you’ll find all sorts of cute and cuddly creatures in the library of ...

For example, >.< is a cute face in South Korea, but an angry face in Hungary - be careful who you’re sending them to! There is some evidence that emoticons are far older than the sideways smiley.

In the early days of online chatting people used different characters on the keyboard as a shortcut to convey an emotion. The happy face :) to convey happiness or joy. The frowny face :( to convey ...