Dubai: One afternoon in 2016, I received a smiley face emoji under one of my WeChat Moments post. ... lively and cool things. For us, or for me at least, I focus on practicality.

The person on the other end of the message is usually using an Android device, so to them, the emoji does look like a big smile. For me, an iPhone user, it looks like a sarcastic smile or unhappy ...

The next iOS 14.5 beta has been released to developers and includes a couple of new features, but it’s really desirable for its new crop of emoji.

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

Using emojis can be a drag -- and not in a good way. iPhone users are going gaga after discovering another way to use emojis, as seen in X posts currently blowing minds online.

There’s also the issue of professionalism. While 46 percent of younger employees (18-29) thought emoji-use is work appropriate, those 45 and older gave it a thumbs-down. And one survey showed ...

EVERYONE loves using emojis in their texts to try and describe how they’re really feeling. However, some are a bit more difficult to know how to use them. So, what is the upside-down smiley? … ...

All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.