--- title: Hillary Clinton Emails Show Her Learning to Use Emojis description: Hillary Clinton continues to grapple with technology in the latest batch of emails canonical: https://time.com/4095047/hillary-clinton-email-emojis/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-30T21:08:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:14:31.455Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Emails Show Her Learning to Use Emojis ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ og:description: "On this new berry can I get smiley faces?" og:url: https://time.com/4095047/hillary-clinton-email-emojis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Emails Show Her Learning to Use Emojis ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ twitter:description: "On this new berry can I get smiley faces?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Hillary Clinton Emails Show Her Learning to Use Emojis ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Oct 30, 2015 9:08 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Oct 30, 2015 9:08 PM UTC Hillary Clinton’s emails have [revealed a personal peccadillo](http://Emails Offer Glimpse Into Hillary Clinton’s Private Side) the public might not otherwise have learned about: She is, at times, technologically challenged. There was that time with Clinton’s faxes, when in multiple email exchanges with her aide Huma Abedin she struggled to get a fax machine to work. Then there was the iPad incident, when she asked her aide Phillipe Reines if he could show her how to use the new Apple product during a flight to Kiev. Now, we have the emoji incident of 2012, revealed in the latest batch of Clinton emails released to the public on Friday. In an exchange with Reines that dates to April of that year, Clinton asked him how to write “smiley faces” on her new Blackberry. “Here’s my question: on this new berry can I get smiley faces?” Clinton asked. Reines responded at length, and with the sincerity of an aide to the world’s top diplomat. --- > “” --- The State Department is releasing Clinton’s emails in large batches to the public, a process that has been ongoing since it was discovered that she used a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. **Read more:** [_Emails Offer Glimpse Into Hillary Clinton’s Private Side_](http://Emails Offer Glimpse Into Hillary Clinton’s Private Side) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4095047/hillary-clinton-email-emojis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4095047/hillary-clinton-email-emojis/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Emails Show Her Learning to Use Emojis ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯","datePublished":"2015-10-30T21:08:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:14:31.455Z","description":"\"On this new berry can I get smiley faces?\"","url":"https://time.com/4095047/hillary-clinton-email-emojis/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","hillary clinton emails"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4095047/hillary-clinton-email-emojis/","name":"Hillary Clinton Emails Show Her Learning to Use Emojis ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯"}}]}] ```