Emojis can add tone, context, and personality to messages that we send to our candidates and clients. Here are 10 interesting things that we discovered about them (if used in the right way) and how they can be used to add tone and context to messages.

Emoji

The emoji language is the world’s fastest-growing language

3472222 emojis are sent per second on Messenger

Over 5 billion emoji are sent to Messenger every day vs. 60 million on Facebook.

Who invented emojis?

While the Egyptians are credited with creating hieroglyphics, Japanese phone carrier Docomo has been widely credited as the originator of what we know as emoji today.

Negative Emojis

More negative emojis were used during the 2016 U.S. election than ever before

There are now 3019 official emojis

e.g. a diving mask, Hindu temple, flamingo, etc.

Men and women use emojis differently

Emoji use differs between men and women.

Over 50% of recruiters are already using emojis

survey result

World Emoji Day

Celebrated on July 17 every year

Face With Tears of Joy

2018’s most popular emoji

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