In honor of the birthday of the smiley face PR-Agency Ideas&Solutions have made the TOP 12 interesting and useful facts about network Pets :
1. 19 September 1982, the American scholar Scott Fahlman on one of the online forums suggested characters :-) to indicate a joke and :-( to accompany a sad content.
2. The smiley icon was created 20 years before the official appearance of a smiley face artist Harvey ball.
3. Emoji "smooth out" the situation and make communication more lively and informal.
4. Positive emoticons, five times more than sad.
5. Push notifications containing Emoji, users reveal 85% more often, and distribution — 45%.
6. In Facebook messages with emoticons collected 57% more likes and get 25-30% more reposts.
7. According to the technical requirements to ad formats Facebook, in the text of the record is allowed to use not more than 6 emoji (graphical emoticons).
8. In the same famous social network in messages, comments or notes do not leave more than 100 emoticons. If the limit is exhausted, the graphic image will be displayed in the form of squares.
9. Classmates – the first social network that decided to sell their emoticons.
10. On different devices and resources, the smileys look different. Sometimes they may not even read. To know the meaning of smilies on the site emojipedia.org. There you will find not only detailed interpretation of the smileys, but also be able to see how the same smiley looks on different platforms.
11. When communicating with foreigners, be careful to use smileys. For example, the thumb , which in our country expresses its approval, in Greece and Thailand means to send to hell...
12. People and business accounts use Emoji in different ways: first choose the characters faces and gestures (51%) or subjects and objects, such as (18%), and the second often used symbols associated with money (11%) .