Keith Broni says young people want to "distinguish" themselves, but says smiling faces, crying laughing and red heart emojis ...

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.

lets you select pick two emoji and have them combine into a new one. Smiley face plus pineapple equals smiling pineapple, crying face plus cat equals crying cat, you get the picture. As a tech ...

Prof Fahlman posted the ‘sideways smiley’ onto ... as a language, emoji combinations are largely subject to interpretation. What do you mean broccoli-broccoli-crying face?