{"id":357,"date":"2019-08-29T12:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T08:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinngle.me\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2019-08-29T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T10:18:48","slug":"why-do-we-use-emoticons-and-emojis-science-based-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinngle.me\/blog\/why-do-we-use-emoticons-and-emojis-science-based-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Use Emoticons and Emojis? Science-Based Facts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know? The first use of an emoticon online dates back to 1982. Scott Elliott Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University proposed \u201c:-)\u201d to be used as a \u201cjoke marker\u201d in a message.<\/p>\n

Today, emoticons are so much widely used and don\u2019t need too much explanation<\/a>. With the growth of social media, these pictorial representations of feelings have gained enough significance in terms of communication.<\/p>\n

However, the first emoticons appeared in one of the issues of Puck magazine in 1981. 4 faces were published in the magazine, which were meant to convey astonishment, joy, indifference, and melancholy. They were called \u201ctypographical art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emojis, smiley faces, hearts, winking eyes, were created in 1998 by Shigetaka Kurita, an engineer at the Japanese phone company, NTT Docomo. His job was to create a way for customers to communicating using icons. His efforts resulted in the creation of 176 icons, which he called \u201cemojis.\u201d the name is driven from 2 Japanese words \u201ce\u201d (picture) and \u201cmoji\u201d (character).<\/p>\n

Today, more than 1.800 emojis exist. Emojis have evolved into characters to be used for a millennial language. You can find them in any modern communication means, e.g. in mobile messaging apps such as Pinngle, Viber, WhatsApp, and more.<\/p>\n

Reasons Why We Communicate with \u00a0Emojis and Emoticons<\/h2>\n

\"emojis,<\/p>\n

There are cases when a picture means more than a thousand words. Emojis usually don\u2019t have any labels, so their meaning is up to those who use them. However, they often convey an easily identified thought or feeling, so you can understand them in context without difficulty. As of May 2017, there exist 2.666 emojis used in the US. <\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting to note<\/a> that as of 2015:<\/p>\n