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New research that using smiley face emojis in work emails could your career. Researchers from a university in Israel report that people inserting emojis in work-related mail are likely to deemed stupid and incompetent. The researchers experiments on 549 professionals from 29 different countries to their reaction to emojis. The professionals had to " both the competence and warmth" of the e-mail writer. Dr Ella Glikson said: "Our findings first-time evidence that, contrary to actual smiles, smileys do not perceptions of warmth and actually perceptions of competence." She added: "In formal business e-mails, a smiley not a smile."

Other research has also that emojis are often . Some of this misunderstanding related to how the reader or viewer the emoji design. In other cases, there is a technological problem. The emoji that was in by the writer is not shown in the same way in the e-mail received and read by the reader. This when the writer and reader of an email do not the same software or operating system for their devices. Emojis on Japanese mobile phones in the late 1990s. They quickly in popularity and now more than six billion of them are sent every day around the world. There is even a World Emoji Day, which is on July the 17th every year.

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