Adobe Emoji Trend Report.
Five thousand Americans participated in the survey, 92% of them daily send emoticons to their interlocutors. Results:
• Sending 🍆 while flirting online makes the interlocutor less attractive. It's worse to send 💩 - this emoji is the most unpleasant for all survey participants.
• The cutest romantic emoji - 😘. The top 3 also includes 🥰 and 😍.
• Men during virtual flirting use emoji more often than women - 76% versus 68%.
• 72% of users send emoticons in dialogue with someone they are interested in. About the same number believe that emojis make them look cooler, friendlier, and funnier.
• Most often, interlocutors misunderstand the meaning of these emoji — 🤠, 🍒, 🙃.
• 91% of respondents use emoticons to make conversation less serious and more frivolous. Most likely, this is what can explain that most of the most popular emoji are positive: 😂, 👍, ❤️, 🤣. Only one sad emoticon got into the top 5 - 😥.
• 88% of respondents feel more empathy for those who use emoji, and 75% feel a deeper connection with such interlocutors.