If you use lots of emoji when messaging your friends, you may be more emotionally intelligent —that is, better able to understand your emotions and those of others.

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking ...

But who came up with the Smiley? According to the digital keyboard firm Swiftkey, the most used emoji of 2016 in the UK was the one of a face crying with laughter, second was a face blowing a kiss ...