Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team ... For example, here's what Emojipedia writes about the " ...

If you can't find an emoji that accurately expresses your feelings, combine two face emojis to create a new emotion. You can ...

It wasn’t until messaging apps on phones became very popular that we started to utilize little pictures that resembled these emoticons. The smiley face became a small picture of a cute smiley face.

An curved arrow pointing right. Apple just unveiled animated emoji, which they're calling "Animoji." They can be used in the Messenger app and can be used as stickers or sent to a friend as a video.

Emojis have been around since 1999, but these winky faces and random picture characters just recently caught on in America. Learn more about the emoji and how these characters are changing the way ...