Gen Z came after the crying laughing face emoji, but they also have some thoughts on the simple smiley face. So, if you're a parent who sends the smiley face emoji to your teen, you may want to ...

The classic smiley face emoji now means something completely different to those under 30. Instead of conveying happiness, the grinning yellow face is now seen as dismissive, passive-aggressive ...

Just a year later, however, the Holy Moly emoticon was added to the Symbols & Emoticons for Facebook ... Since then, both the emoji and the sound has spawned many meme iterations.

Of course, clear skies will be essential to view the full "space emoji," and ... that seeing a smiley face might take "some imagination," depending on the viewer's location. Memes circulating ...

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.