It was also clear that people loved using emojis with the company claiming at the time that 10% of messages included the use of emojis. It was decided by Facebook that emojis had changed the way that we communicate with one another and provided an option outside of words to convey our emotions through text. The update also made the experience of Android and iPhone users more universal by making the emojis look similar on either operating system and equalizing the access to various emojis. There were also additional “empowering” female emojis such as women police officers and runners.

Within the update, there were additional skin tones to choose from which helped better reflect the global user base of the app. The auto emoji update was first introduced in Facebook Messenger in 2016 as part of a bigger emoji update that introduced around 1500 new emoji options to users. However, there are some people who love retro classics such as punctuation emoticons or just using words. While this may not seem like a huge inconvenience, and if you are someone who likes emojis, you are probably wondering what the problem is at all. If a word or phrase matches an emoji, the word may be replaced with the relevant emoji which is often less than ideal. This feature has evolved over the last few years and now encompasses the words that you type in your messages. If you swap the colon for a semi-colon, you will be greeted with a winking emoji. This means that if you were to type a colon followed by a closing parenthesis, it would automatically convert into an open-eyed smiley emoji.

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