Over the past few years, the term "emoji" (literally
translated from Japanese as "picture symbols") has transformed from a neologism into an attribute
of everyday life. Moreover, the speed of distribution and scope of use
of a small army of smiling people continues to list of israel cell phone numbers gain momentum literally exponentially
. So what is this - bad manners or a successful commercial
move? What is the secret of the success of emoji, how does their use affect conversion and
human mental health? TheRunet tried to analyze
the global trend.
It all starts with
love
It is generally accepted that the first smiley, still in the form of a regular
colon followed by a bracket, was used in 1982. The inventor of
the “emotional pictogram” is considered to be the professor of the American
Carnegie University Scott Fahlman. He proposed using the signs of sad
on the university bulletin board to distinguish
humorous messages from serious ones. From the bulletin board, the symbols quickly migrated
to the then nascent Internet. However, according to other sources, the first
smileys appeared a century earlier. At the end of the 19th century, in
the American satirical magazinePuck4 funny faces were published
, expressing joy, sadness, indifference and surprise. Typed
with the help of ordinary punctuation marks, they were presented as an example of
typographic art. However, a real revolution in the world of printed emotions
was still far away.