The Real Reason You Send Emoji

June 14, 2013 Subscribe · Forward The Appeal Of Emoji: They Don't Say Anything A few years ago, I staged an emoticon intervention with my father. I'd realized with horror that he had been sprinkling smiley faces into the messages he sent to his friends, relatives and even business acquaintances, so I sat him down for a stern conversation about the crippling un-coolness that the habit conveyed. No one, I told him, should be caught dead using . At the time, I congratulated myself on being a caring daughter who'd saved her father from looking like a fool. Yet recently, I've realized my dad was just an early adopter. Continue reading... Samsung Promises The 'Kill Switch' That Apple Won't Yahoo Was Reportedly Forced To Join PRISM By A Secret Court How This $120,000 Kickstarter Scam Got Caught With Hashtags, Facebook's Moving Away From Friends Netflix Is Going To Make Your Life So Much Better This Internship Will Get You $6K A Month -- And Free Massages With Hashtags, Facebook's Moving Away From Friends WATCH: This Flying Bike Took Its First Successful Flight TIM MCDONALD Intro to Google Hangouts As someone who's been using Google Hangouts for over 18 months, I am often asked to help people understand Hangouts. Here's an intro to Google Hangouts. Continue reading... EILEEN M. COLLINS Beyond the Politics: Space Exploration Is Imperative to Innovation and Inspiration As a nation, we must put politics aside to ensure that expanding the space frontier occupies a prominent place on our national agenda. We need strategic, adequately funded and aggressively paced programs to keep America at the summits of technical innovation and exploration. Continue reading... ZACH STAFFORD Didn't Ask? Don't Share If you are under 30, have an online dating presence, and have ever opened the messages you receive online, you've probably encountered a d*ck pic before. Continue reading... JEAN-CHRISTOPHE NOTHIAS And Now, the Second Battle of the Internet The worldwide digital space is in danger. We, the citizens of the world, are equally in danger. We need a better and more truly democratic multistakeholder model and we want governments to be bounded by treaties to obey international law when most needed. Continue reading... EMRE KIZILKAYA Behind Turkey's Viral Revolution, There Are Mad Men (Actually Women) Wandering around the barricades near Istanbul's Taksim Square, I kept asking myself, "How could a few 'occupiers' manage to mobilize millions here and beyond, in 77 provinces of Turkey and dozens of cities in the world?" Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003