6/11/2023 0 Comments Smiley faces for emailSmileys and emojis, as well as stickers and GIFs, can make up for missing gestures, tone of voice and other elements of communication we use to rely on when speaking to someone in person. Indeed, smileys lighten up written communication, clarify information and convey emotions, which is even more important if there’s a lack of actual face-to-face conversation – something that has been increasingly common, mainly since 2020. And unlike most emoticons, they’re not sideways. Sometimes though, these character-based emoticons are automatically converted by apps to a more appealing in-line visual representation, such as □ ☹ – these yellow faces that better convey moods such as anger, fear or joy are smileys. The most well-known emoticons are of course the :-) and :-( faces, first used in 1982 – which means emoticons are about to celebrate their 40th anniversary! These are created by simply using and combining different punctuation marks, letters, or numbers, to create a simple representation of an emotion. But is it appropriate to use smileys or emojis in professional communication, even more so in business emails? Emoticons, smileys, emojis, stickers, GIFs – what’s the difference?Įmoticons (or emotes in short) are sequences of ASCII characters. Smileys, emojis or gifs have become an integral part of our everyday private communication and these “visual aids” of written expression constitute a language of its own.
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