What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

Sometimes a thumbs-up emoji is just a thumbs-up emoji, Freud once said. Freud wasn't on Slack. But the Daily Mail article suggests I may be coming across to Gen Z (those born between 1997 and 2012 ...

Younger people seem to have moved on. Emojis like the heart ( ️) or the hands-up (🙌) are now doing the heavy lifting when it comes to showing actual enthusiasm or approval.

OK, it may be "pushing hand," or "high five," but "talk to the hand" is just way cooler. ... a total of 31 new emoji is up for approval by The Unicode Consortium this September.

The emojis include: Thumbs-up 👍, red heart ️, “OK” hand 👌, checkmark , poo 💩, loud crying face 😭, monkey covering eyes 🙈, clapping hands 👏, lipstick kiss mark 💋 and ...