From a simple thumbs up to a laughing cowboy, there is an emoji for almost any conceivable moment. But it is the humble smiley face which is the most iconic of them all. However, if you've been ...

Well, they have really strong opinions about the use of the smiley face emoji, in particular Apple’s yellow, wide eyed grinning emoji. So what is it about the smiley face that is so wrong?

So, what is the upside-down smiley? The upside-down smiley emoji tends to be used in a sarcastic sense. The emoji is a flipped version of the usual smile face which is one of the most used emoticons.

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Dubai: One afternoon in 2016, I received a smiley face emoji under ... I didn’t even know that the [Bye] emoji meant saying goodbye – I thought it meant saying ‘hi’ by waving at someone.

What was it? The ubiquitous smiley face. Emojis are in the news because a recent Tracker Research survey of 2,000 Americans revealed that 41% of respondents believe a message needs an emoji to be ...