Formerly known as smileys and often confused with emoticons, emoji faces are used on SMS and ... They can all be used ...

Young people have been urging everyone to stop using the 'smiley' emoji as because it’s too “passive aggressive”.

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.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, 21-year-old Hafeezat Bishi spoke about her experience with the emoji as some of her new ...