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 ...

The smiley face emoji is no longer being perceived as joyful. The generation born between 1997 and 2012 finds it to be anything but positive. Yup, that's right.

Look, I’m no emoji expert, but there’s one thing I do know: The basic smiley emoji is a goddamn liar. And using it makes you a liar, too. I first noticed ...

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Using the wrong emoji at work can shift the meaning of your message. Staying curious about tone and generational preferences ...

Despite seeming like a universal language – and sometimes they do function that way – emojis can be at once more vague, and ...

Context can complicate even the simplest smiley face. And the roughly 1,500 emoji identified by Unicode are hardly a replacement for the 250,000-plus words in English or the variety of the real world.