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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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? … ...