Clinton asked staff about ‘smiley faces’

Hillary Clinton may have made a meme out of texting, but she still needed a little help.

An April 2012 email to top staffer Philippe Reines released by the State Department on Friday showed that the former secretary of State had a little bit of trouble typing out emoji — or, as she called them, “smiley faces” — when she switched to a new BlackBerry.

{mosads}“Here’s my question: on this new berry can I get smiley faces?” Clinton asked Reines.

“For email, no, I don’t think so,” Reines responded. “[Y]our need to type them out manually like 🙂 for happy, or :-|| if you want to express anger at my tardiness.

“For text messaging, the chart might be there in the lower right, next to where you type the message,” he added. “If it’s not, I THINK that if you type 🙂 it MIGHT automatically convert it into a symbol. Try it.”