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Today is The World Emoji Day

Web Desk (July 17, 2018): Emojis have become so much a part of our lives that they now even have a day dedicated to them, and it’s today. July 17 has been celebrated as World Emoji Day since 2014.

Founder of Emojipedia, a sort of Wikipedia for emojis, Jeremy Burge picked the day from the iPhone emoji for the calendar and it shows July 17.    On Twitter, people uses the laughing face with tears emoji the most, followed by the smiling face with heart eyes emoji and the person with folded hands emoji.

To some, emojis are cool and hip; to others, they are puerile; and to still others, they mark the decline of the English language.Emojis date back to 1995, when people used pagers instead of smartphones and NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s biggest cellular phone operator, added a small heart icon to its pagers. The heart spread rapidly among Japanese teenagers because it allowed them to express an emotion.Emojis are the new emotional shorthand. These are not hieroglyphics that need to be decoded. They are much simpler, its fun to use them and it shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

People all across the world, who communicate across social networks not only speak many different languages but also use a bunch of different emojis. An emoji can be defined as a small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication. The term comes from Japanese, e for picture and moji for character or letter. The term is similar to English word emoticon which shows various facial expressions.According to a research, some researchers said people respond to emojis the same way they would respond to a real human face.

On Facebook, people across the globe are using the red heart emoji twice as much as they did last year. There are more than 2,800 emojis and almost all of them are used each and every day on Facebook. More than 700 million emojis are used in Facebook posts every day.

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