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Are You :-) or :-( with all those Emoticons at Work?

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Are emoticons making social media communicating easier or easier to avoid real emotions? How do you feel about emoticons? Well, maybe I should first ask, did you now that those punctuation marks that look like faces on their sides actually had a name? And that they have different names for the style type depending upon the expression orientation and where in the world they were developed or what software you're using? There's even documentation on the first known use of the original smiley-face emoticon and a kickstarter for an emoji keyboard . But like casual Fridays and Holiday parties , those collection of silly faces have become an accepted part of business communications despite their non-business like nature. It seems that emotion icons, (better known by the portmanteau emoticon ), and their pictograph close cousin emoji are part of every communication, built into email clients, Facebook, and many other platforms. Some applications will even turn your