From friendly smiley faces to cheeky aubergines, emoji now form a staple part of many people's daily messages. But despite their prevalence, people are only just realising what one popular ...

LOL! Generations at war over peach and winking emoji...and don't even think of using the aubergine. There are now 3,633 officially recognised emojis with ten billion sent each day ...

"LOL"-ers had the highest median age of anyone in the group, which included Facebook users ages 13 to 70. But it's not just your age or your gender that's connected to your online laughter of choice.

The classic smiley face emoji now means something completely different to those under 30. Instead of conveying happiness , the grinning yellow face is now seen as dismissive, passive-aggressive ...

Gen Z has cancelled the fan favorite acronym LOL. Instead, the slang savvy generation has coined a more complicated term in lieu of "laugh out loud": IJBOL, or, for the uninitiated, "I just burst ...

So LOL — just like some of the basic laughs that it represents — doesn’t ... LOL works much in the same way emoticons and emoji do: When people send a smiley face, they may not ...

According to their data, the “Face With Tears of Joy” emoji, also known as LOL Emoji or Laughing Emoji, comprised nearly 20% of all emoji use in the U.S. and the U.K., where Oxford is based.

Of course the smiley face wasn’t always just an emoji. It actually has a steeper history that’s older than any Gen Z. According to The Guardian, the smiley face was invented in 1963 “as a ...

So while the “face with tears of joy” emoji may be the most common expression in our language, I’m willing to hold out for those rare moments that elicit actual tears of joy.