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 These days, many people communicate with text messages and social media services. However, according to Professor Evans, 60% of information when we¡¯re talking to each other comes from non-verbal cues. As a result, in text messages, we lose the 60% of information given from non-verbal cues. To give the information given from non-verbal cues, people use emojis and emoticons. The official birth of emoticons is usually given as 1982, when a US professor instructed his students to use smiley faces to indicate jokes - in a digital communication.

 There are a big difference between emojis and emoticons. Emoticons are the images made using normal keys on a keyboard usually punctuation, letters and numbers. Whereas an emoji is something completely different. It¡¯s an actual image. It could be a simple, yellow, smiley face; or something like a dancing lady; or even a bowl of noodles! 

 The similarities between emojis and emoticons are that they enable us to express emotion and empathy in digital communication. Increasingly, what we¡¯re finding is that digital communication is taking over from certain aspects of face-to-face interaction. In the UK today, for example, adults spend 22 hours online on average each week. One of the reasons emojis are so interesting is that they really do enable us to express our emotional selves much more effectively.

 As we communicate more in text messages than face-to-face interaction, the use of emoticons and emojis will rise constantly.