In the span of a few years, emoji — the smiley faces, hearts, flags and other small pictures installed in most smartphone, email and chat programs — have become ubiquitous in digital ...

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The more I see the emoji, the grumpier I get – the more that cartoon face morphs into a youthful Ronaldo. Because although the point of a wink is often to share a joke, I’m starting to feel ...

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The 33-year-old tech whiz adds that the wink and tongue face emoji, plus the disembodied tongue, are "off limits". He explains: "Avoid the wink with tongue out. It can be a little OTT.

Emoji have very little space to convey a large message. A simple shape makes it easier for users to scroll through a set of more than 2,000 emoji to find the one they want.