Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face ... explaining the difference between emoticons and emoji, Professor Vyv ...

Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons ... actually looked like. Smiley faces have also been ...

But according to a new study, there’s one thing that we should all be eliminating from our work emails – and that’s the smiley face emoji ... smileys and similar emoticons on professional ...