For the uninitiated, emoji are special characters, like a winking face, dancing girl or, yes, pile of poop. They’re approved and distributed by the Unicode Consortium, which creates guidelines needed ...

I am an emoji scrooge. I’m very stingy with them, a real smiley miser. I groan when I see a string of them in a group chat. I send them only to my sister, mother, grandma and – in very, very extreme ...

Official names tell one story. Real usage tells another. Here are the emojis most often misread, plus what people actually ...

Sometimes words aren’t enough, and that’s where emojis come in. But even then, there are times you just can’t find the perfect little pictograph that encapsulates your exact mood. Even the slightly ...

At the beginning of the 2010s when the Japanese-originating emoji keyboard first took the US by storm, I can admit now, I balked at the idea. Why did I need an extra keyboard? Why did my messages need ...

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It’s about damn time! Facebook Messenger’s emojis are getting a huge makeover. “Messenger is bringing over 1,500 newly designed Messenger emojis to the world,” the company released in a statement. “We ...

The introduction of emojis has hanged the way we communicate digitally. These colourful icons have gone from cute pictures we use while texting to images laden with meaning. The emoji options ...

The iconic “face with tears of joy” took the crown in new rankings of Kenya’s most popular emoji’s. In the analysis released by social media company Facebook, the “love heart” and the “rolling on the ...