"Unfortunately, they're very dynamic and change over time," Dr. Tim K. Mackey tells PEOPLE Alexandra Rockey Fleming is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been covering breaking news, human ...

Police and experts are warning parents to be cautious about the emojis their children use online, an issue highlighted in the hit Netflix drama Adolescence. The series follows 13-year-old Jamie ...

Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark ...