That's why emojis are fast becoming the cool new way to text and talk. Emojis have been around since 1999, but these winky faces and random picture characters just recently caught on in America.

Virtual conversations are punctuated by emojis. These little characters that liven up text messages slip almost naturally ...

The entire nation, it seems, is talking emojis after they appeared in a high-level Signal message chat: 👊🏴🔥 ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts ... So when you send text messages in the future you might ...