There is a gender divide in the use of emoticons, with women generating a disproportionate amount of online emoji content. In a study conducted by an online dating site, a man with a smiley face on their profile received 6% fewer messages than those who didn't. Women who used the same icon received 60% more messages than women who didn't.
Although Emoji may seem like a new phenomenon, it was precluded by talks with Francis Bacon and John Wilkins in the 1950s, who envisioned a pictorial language that would act as a form of universal language between countries.
Our earliest form of writing was also in the form of hierogliphs and similar pictorial script around 5000BC, with alphabetic writing only taking form around 1200BC, which is interesting in the sense that written communication is in a sense going backwards, while technology moves forwards.
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