The book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus and its gender stereotypes on how the sexes communicate remains fodder for debate. Two researchers from Indiana University, Bloomington, however, have confirmed one tiling: When men and women talk through technology, it is the women who are more expressive. Susan Herring and Asta Zelenka-uskaite show that, while men historically talk more in public settings, when the exchanges occur via text messaging, it is women who push their messages closest to the character-count limit, who use more abbreviations and insertions, and who implement more emoticons (like smiling and frowning faces).
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