The rose emoji is a classy option and is the textual version of giving them flowers or, even better, suggesting that they ...

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 ...

Another emoji that can come across as sarcastic ... a recent study by Google has revealed. Smiley faces, love hearts, thumbs up and other cartoon icons - rather than words - are the preferred ...

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?

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.

According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, indignation, envy, love ... detour in the 1980s with emoticons, melding “emotion” and “icon” (a ...