Formerly known as smileys and often confused with emoticons, emoji faces are used on SMS ... from those that feature smiles ...

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.

Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking smiley face should you use? Is there a difference between each ...

Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in ...

And it seems that laughing emoticons were the most popular ... In the USA, the "face with tears of joy" emoji leads the way as the most popular, as it does in the UK and Nigeria, while the ...

Your choice will be limited to laughing out loud, a winking face emoji, the cool sunglasses, the heart eyes, and the good old standard smiley face. Why emojis mean different things in different ...