"A picture worth a thousand words."
What we used to do when we didn't have a smartphone was to use punctuation marks to make small pictures. Remember friends? Let's talk about a small history of Emojis. The ancestral smiley face ":-)" was first used by computer scientist Scott E.Fahlman for online board work. Then in 1997, Shigetaka Kurita created an emoji set with 16 icons for the Japanese phone carrier - DOCOMO.
Now here is a very interesting thing we should understand.
What is the difference between Emoticons & Emojis?
Emoticons are some emotional icons that are created using letters, numbers, punctuation marks.
And emojis are pictographs of faces, objects, and symbols.
Today I am sharing with you some amazing facts here on Emojis from the most recent Adobe's Global Emoji Trend Report 2021:
1.88% of global emoji users are more likely to feel empathetic toward someone if they use an emoji!! Incredible!!
3.Top 3 emoji when it comes to flirting are :
#1 😘
#2 🥰
#3 😍
I am pretty sure you must have used it a couple of seconds back.😁
4.Emojis are breaking language barriers! And that's what 89% of Global Emoji users are agreeing.
What do you think about it?
5.Another great thing about emojis are they bring happiness, understanding and positively, impact our mental health. Amazing isn't it?
6.Now let's look at the top 5 favorite emojis of the Global Emoji Users:
#1 😂
#2 👍
#3 💓
#4 😘
#5 😢
So today we learned a lot of unknown information about emojis friends. If you like the blog, be sure to share. And let me know which Emoji is your favorite.
Today is World Emoji Day, friends. This day was first celebrated on July 17, 2014 when the founder of Emojipedia, Jeremy Burge announced that July 17th will be observed as World Emoji Day. Above I started this blog with a quote, Today we are all in love with emoji from parents to sons and daughters, from boyfriends to girlfriends to grandparents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, neighbors, these little pictures are deeply ingrained in the dialogue of our daily lives. Emoji is a Japanese word. Emoji meaning pictograph or pictogram. In today's world we use plenty of emojis like: laughing emoji, heart emoji, thumbs up emoji, crying emoji, kissing emoji and sometime poop emoji as well.
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What we used to do when we didn't have a smartphone was to use punctuation marks to make small pictures. Remember friends? Let's talk about a small history of Emojis. The ancestral smiley face ":-)" was first used by computer scientist Scott E.Fahlman for online board work. Then in 1997, Shigetaka Kurita created an emoji set with 16 icons for the Japanese phone carrier - DOCOMO.
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| The first emoji set created in Japan in 1997 by Shigetaka Kurita.(Source:Twitter) |
Emoticons vs Emoji :
Now here is a very interesting thing we should understand.
What is the difference between Emoticons & Emojis?
Emoticons are some emotional icons that are created using letters, numbers, punctuation marks.
And emojis are pictographs of faces, objects, and symbols.
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| Photo by Ann H from Pexels |
Today I am sharing with you some amazing facts here on Emojis from the most recent Adobe's Global Emoji Trend Report 2021:
1.88% of global emoji users are more likely to feel empathetic toward someone if they use an emoji!! Incredible!!
2.55% of global emoji users are comfortable only through emoji rather than a telephonic conversation. Relatable friends?
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| Photo by ROMAN ODINTSOV from Pexels |
3.Top 3 emoji when it comes to flirting are :
#1 😘
#2 🥰
#3 😍
I am pretty sure you must have used it a couple of seconds back.😁
4.Emojis are breaking language barriers! And that's what 89% of Global Emoji users are agreeing.
What do you think about it?
5.Another great thing about emojis are they bring happiness, understanding and positively, impact our mental health. Amazing isn't it?
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| Photo by Kindel Media from Pexels |
6.Now let's look at the top 5 favorite emojis of the Global Emoji Users:
#1 😂
#2 👍
#3 💓
#4 😘
#5 😢
So today we learned a lot of unknown information about emojis friends. If you like the blog, be sure to share. And let me know which Emoji is your favorite.