An emoticon is short for ’emotion icon’ and is a visual representation of a facial expression or body posture to convey mood, attitude or emotion used initially in text messages. Emoticons can at their most simplest be expressed within text by using a series of punctuation marks (as above) and sometimes letters and special marks. Emoji on the other hand, is a picture that is derived from an actual code. The code, which is easily transferred by email, phones, etc is then converted to an icon for the user to see. The first emoticon ":-)" was used on Sep. 9, 1982 by Scott Fahlman but shortly thereafter people developed much more complex combinations such as (^-^)/ (person raising one hand to ask a question) and ＼(^o^)／ (person raising both hands and cheer).
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